Prisoner commits suicide at Nizamabad jail

Update: 2019-07-17 14:02 IST

A prisoner who was awarded life imprisonment has committed suicide at Nizamabad jail on Wednesday.

Venkatesh, a native of Arugonda village of Rajampeta mandal in Kamareddy hanged himself with a towel from the prison window. The jail officials have launched an inquiry.

On June 21, a prisoner at Ahmedabad's Sabarmati central jail committed suicide by jumping in front of a jail van. Pratap K Thakur was convicted in his wife's murder in 2014 by a Visnagar court.  

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