27-year-old undertrial ends life in Amritsar jail

AMRITSAR: A 27-year-old inmate allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in a bathroom of a barrack in Amritsar central jail on Wednesday.

The deceased has been identified as Baljit Singh of Teda village in Ajnala subdivision.

According to the jail officials, Baljit had been lodged in the jail since January this year. They said he had been booked under Sections 363 (kidnapping), 366 (abducting or inducing woman to compel her for marriage) and 376 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). HTC