Central jail prisoner hangs self in barrack
Regarding the incident, Central Jail superintendent Radha Krishna Mishra said on Tuesday that during routine check of barracks on Monday night, jail officials and guards noticed the body of a prisoner, Vijay alias Kalu Tyagi (46) of Baghpat district, hanging from the ceiling of an isolated barrack adjacent to the jail's hospital.
Tyagi was serving a 20-year sentence under
POCSO Act
in a case of raping a minor girl. He was lodged here since Nov2020. Mishra said after being lodged in Baghpat jail, Tyagi murdered an inmate with a rod torn from the cover of a sewer manhole there. After lodging an FIR, he was transferred from Baghpat district to Varanasi Central Jail on administrative grounds in 2020. tnn
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