LUCKNOW: Barely a week after a 20-year-old undertrial was lodged in Lucknow jail, he was found hanging in his barrack on Tuesday morning. Though no suicide note was recovered, police suspect the lovelorn youth hanged himself after sinking into acute depression. His body was sent for autopsy after prison brass informed police.
An inmate, Sushil, spotted the undertrial, Aman Agarwal, hanging from a bed-sheet tied around his neck in the washroom and raised an alarm at around 10am. Aman was thrown behind bars on charges of rape and abduction of a minor and forcing her into marriage. He was also booked under stringent sections of POCSO Act, though Aman told police on day of his arrest on May 5 that the girl had turned a major. Since his incarceration, Aman stopped eating and barely spoke. Aman eloped with his lady love, a resident of
Cantonment
area in January and lived in anonymity with her in
Madiaon
, till he was tracked down by police six days ago after the girl’s parents moved SGPGI police. Two days after the youth was arrested, the girl who was sent back to her parents fled home and was later traced and sent to Nari Niketan.
Speaking to TOI, SHO, Gosaiganj,
Dheerendra Khushwaha
, said, preliminary inquiry suggests Aman sank into depression after being separated from the girl, whom he claimed to have secretly married. He was lodged in a barrack with only two inmates, in keeping with social distancing norms. “Inmates who told us that Aman would starve and kept to himself,” he said.
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