A state police constable, belonging to 11th battalion, Aranpur, who had killed four of his colleagues last year and was lodged in sub jail here as an under-trial, committed suicide Wednesday night by hanging self from ventilator of his cell.
According to jail officials, cop Deep Kumar Tiwari, who was lodged in Dantewada sub-jail as an under-trial was seen trying to hang self from the ventilator of his cell with the help of a ‘gamchha’ (traditional towel). Seeing him hanging from the ventilator around 1 am guards cut the towel with the help of other jail inmates and after bringing down rushed him to Dantewada district hospital where he died during treatment. The dead cop was a native of lucknow and was reportedly mentally ill due to which on simple provocation by colleagues he got enraged seriously and killed four of them with his self loading rifle on 24 December 2012.