New Delhi: A 25-year-old man, who tried to commit suicide inside the Tihar Jail here, died at a hospital on Friday, officials said.
The victim has been identified as Rajesh. He was convicted in a POSCO Act case, a senior jail official said.
He tried to commit suicide by hanging himself in the toilet around 3 pm on Wednesday, the officials said.
He was immediately brought down by the warden and other inmates and rushed to the DDU hospital. On Friday around 11.45 am, he has died, they added.
In a similar incident, Ram Singh, the main accused in Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, killed himself in a cell he shared with three other inmates in New Delhi's Tihar jail just before dawn in 2013.
(With inputs from ANI and PTI)
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