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A 27-year-old prisoner allegedly committed suicide at the Nashik Road Central jail in the wee hours on Monday.
Updated : Apr 06, 2015, 05:52 PM IST
A 27-year-old prisoner allegedly committed suicide at the Nashik Road Central jail in the wee hours on Monday, police said.
Prahlad Rokade hanged himself from a toilet window using a rope made out of a bed-sheet in barrack No 2 of the jail in North Maharashtra, Nashik Road Police Station Inspector Narayan Nyahalde said. His body has been sent for post-mortem to Nashik Civil Hospital, he said.
On December 29 last year, Rokade was convicted in a rape case and was undergoing sentence in Nashik.