Mumbai, 10 September: Jitendra Shinde (25), who was jailed in the case of the rape and murder of a schoolgirl in Kopardi in Ahmednagar district, has committed suicide in Yerwada jail, located in Pune district. Shinde was serving life imprisonment. The jail administration has started investigating the incident.
According to officials, Jitendra Shinde hanged himself in the barracks on Sunday morning. As soon as the warden got wind of this, he took him to the doctors in jail. Doctors declared him dead. The fast-track court had sentenced Shinde to life imprisonment.
