A convict serving a death sentence in a 2016 case of rape and murder of a minor girl in Maharashtra was found hanging in his cell at the Yerwada Central Jail in Pune said the police.Prisoner hangs himself to death in Pune JailInitially, the reports suggested that it could be a case of suicide, they said, adding the convict was undergoing psychiatric treatment.According to the police, the deceased appeared to have used towel strips to hang himself in his cell in the jail. On Sunday, a prison guard found him hanging in his cell and altered the other guards.Immediately, after this, the prisoner was taken for a medical examination where he was declared dead, said an official from Yerawada police station.Why he was arrestedIn 2017, a sessions court in Ahmednagar district sentenced three men to death for the rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl in 2016.Earlier, the police said that the accused had inflicted injuries all over the minors body and broken her limbs before throttling her.The incident triggered widespread protests from the Maratha community, who took out marches across the state over it.
