Boudh: A prisoner convicted and sentenced to life for murder is found hanging in Boudh Special Sub jail Saturday night.
A source said the body of Rabindra Kumar Meher of Jagati village under Bausuni Police station in Boudh district was found hanging in the washroom of the jail by the jail inmates. Rabindra went to the washroom after taking dinner but did not return. Later some jail inmates found him hanging in the washroom.
The body was brought down in the presence of his family members, police and jail officials and sent to Boudh District Headquarter hospital for postmortem.
The exact cause of Rabindra’s death is unknown, though it is suspected that he committed suicide.
Rabindra was arrested in 2015 on the charge of murdering two of his family members. In 2018 a court convicted him and sentenced him to life. He was undergoing treatment since 2017 for mental illness, the jail authorities said.
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