Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (DV)

Mangaluru, Sep 7: A man committed suicide at district prison in the morning of Wednesday, September 7.

Keshava Gowda (38) is the person deceased.

As per details, Keshava was found dead in the morning by jail authorities.

He had used a piece of cloth to hang himself from the prison grills.

Details

More details have emerged relating to suicide committed by Keshava Gowda (28), an under-trial lodged in the central prison here.

Gowda, who was accused in rape which happened at Panjigaru near Bellare, was in the prison since the last six months. He had opted to function as cooking assistant in the kitchen. On Wednesday too he had come to kitchen for work as usual at around 5.30 am. There, he hanged himself from the top rod of the window by using his Lungi as rope.

He was rushed to the district Wenlock Hospital where he was declared brought dead.

A 22-year-old deaf and dumb girl from Panjigaru had been gang-raped on March 19 this year. Harish, Varun, and Keshava were arrested in this case, and all of them were lodged in the district prison here as under-trials.

Keshava Gowda, working as pick-up truck driver of a local electrical shop, had studied up to seventh standard. Keshava was the third of five children of his father. His brothers say that Keshava was innocent and that he was arrested when he went to Panjigaru to collect his motor bike that was abandoned there by his friends who had borrowed it from him a few days back.

It is gathered that Keshava Gowda was depressed by the fact that his bail application was rejected by the court, and he had shared this frustration with family members during their prison visits, it is gathered. They said he did not look worried or frustrated of late, and had planned to file bail application again during this week.