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Etawah (UP): A 22-year-old undertrial lodged in Etawah district jail in a rape case allegedly died by suicide by hanging in the prison toilet, an official said on Tuesday.
Etawah Senior Superintendent of Police Sanjai Kumar said that the inmate, Ravindra Kumar, a resident of Kanpur Dehat district, was booked under sections 137(2) (kidnapping), 87 (kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage, etc) and 64 (punishment for rape) of BNS and POCSO Act.
The case was registered against him at Kotwali police station in Auraiya district.
He was sent to jail on October 11 and was kept in jail barrack number 9.
"On Tuesday, at around 12 noon, he went to the toilet from the barrack. In the toilet, he died by suicide by hanging himself with his towel. The jail administration has informed the family members of the deceased," he said.