Haryana: On day of sentencing, inmate dies by suicide in Sonepat jail
Claims innocence in suicide note, two days after he was held guilty of raping minor by a local court on April 2
An inmate died by suicide in the common bathroom of the Sonepat district jail on Thursday, hours before a local court was to sentence him for raping a minor, police said on Friday.
Sonepat city police station house officer Devender Kumar said: “We have received a suicide note in which he termed himself innocent.”
The police had received a complaint from a woman on February 12, 2022, in which she stated that the accused had raped her minor daughter. He was arrested in Murthal almost a year later on January 8, 2023.
On April 2, a Sonepat court held him guilty of raping the minor and the sentence was to be pronounced later on April 4.
Investigation is underway, the SHO added.
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