New Delhi: A 21-year-old undertrial prisoner was found dead under mysterious circumstances at the Tihar Jail, police said today.
Police added that they were informed about the incident around 1 pm.
The prisoner was accused in a minor's rape, in outer Delhi's Ranhola area and was in jail number 5 since 2015, they said.
"Why would someone kill himself by banging their head against the wall? He was being tortured by a jail employee and he told us about it. The jail employee, on earlier occasions, had also thrashed my client", AP Singh, the victim's lawyer, told PTI.
He also claimed that jail authorities did not inform his family about the death and they came to know about it through some acquaintances.
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Police added that they were informed about the incident around 1 pm.
The prisoner was accused in a minor's rape, in outer Delhi's Ranhola area and was in jail number 5 since 2015, they said.
"Why would someone kill himself by banging their head against the wall? He was being tortured by a jail employee and he told us about it. The jail employee, on earlier occasions, had also thrashed my client", AP Singh, the victim's lawyer, told PTI.
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He also claimed that jail authorities did not inform his family about the death and they came to know about it through some acquaintances.
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