A convicted prisoner, who had been serving life term imprisonment at the district jail in a case filed under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, died in a hospital yesterday.
The deceased was identified as Billal Sardar, 50, of Degreerchar village in Lohagara upazila of the district.
District jail jailer A K M Masum said Billal was admitted to Narail Sadar Hospital after he felt chest pain at 8 am.  Residential Medical Officer of Narail Sadar Hospital Asaduzzaman Munshi said Billal died of cardiac arrest at about 9-30 am, just after ten minutes of his admission into the hospital.
A case had been filed against Billal under Women and Children Repression Prevention Act with Lohagara police station in 2000. Later, a court sentenced him to life time imprisonment on February 24 in 2008.