LUDHIANA: An inmate allegedly committed suicide in the washroom of Ludhiana Central Jail on Sunday morning.Harpreet Singh, 48, a resident of Jaspaloon village in Doraha, was an accused in a rape and a drug peddling case “Harpreet was brought to the jail about eight months ago. Three days ago, he had gone to the district courts to attend a hearing in his case. There, his family and relatives told him that his misdeeds had brought them a bad name,” said a jail official.Harpreet had been upset since then. “He had stopped talking and kept to himself. He was quite depressed on Saturday, thinking of the humiliation he suffered at the court,” said sources.Jail superintendent Shamsher Singh Boparai said on Saturday Harpreet went to sleep after dinner. “During checking around 6.35am on Sunday, the jail staff found him hanging with a turban from a grill in the washroom.”The staff took Harpreet to the jail hospital and later to civil hospital, where he was declared brought dead.“A magisterial inquiry has been marked into the case. The Ludhiana sessions judge is expected to visit the prison on Monday to record the statements of jail staff, inmates and doctor. The post-mortem is being conducted at civil hospital,” the jail superintendent added.“Police, State and National Human Rights Commission will be apprised of the incident. The magisterial inquiry will ascertain negligence on the part of the jail staff, if any,” said the jail official.NOT THE FIRST INSTANCEFebruary 3, 2015: A 37-year-old inmate, Kamaljeet Singh of Banga, Nawanshahr district, committed suicide by hanging himself in the jail bathroom. He was convicted in a dowry death case.October 12, 2016: A convict in a drug peddling case tried to end his life by slitting his throat with a mosquito-coil stand in the jail washroom.January 7, 2018: An under-trial assistant sub-inspector allegedly committed suicide inside the Ludhiana Central Jail de-addiction centre washroom. Gurkewal Singh was an accused in a case of looting black money.

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