A 26-year-old convict lodged in Tihar jail reportedly committed suicide by hanging himself inside the washroom of his barrack in the wee hours on Tuesday.
A 26-year-old convict lodged in Tihar jail reportedly committed suicide by hanging himself inside the washroom of his barrack in the wee hours on Tuesday.
The deceased was identified as Javed. He was convicted by the Court of Additional Sessions Judge in a robbery case in Delhi’s Malviya Nagar in 2016.
He was lodged in jail number 8-9 and allegedly took his life by hanging om the the common toilet area of the enclosure for inmates.
A judicial probe is going on in his case.
The incident comes amid an ongoing investigation into the death of jailed gangster Tillu Tajpuriya.
Tajpuriya, whose real name was Sunil Balyan, leader of Delhi’s Tillu gang, was killed on May 2, allegedly by four members of the rival Gogi gang inside a high-security ward of Tihar prison.