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Sensation prevails after an undertrial prisoner committed suicide on Wednesday in Amarpur Jail under Tripuraโ€™s Gomati district.

The 28-year-old deceased jail inmate has been identified as Sajadu Mug, a resident of Shilachari in Gomati district.

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โ€œThe body of Sajadu Mug was found hanging inside the cell of the jail in the morning today,โ€ said the Sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) of Amarpur, Vijay Sinha.

He was brought from Udaipur to the Amarpur Jail on Monday.

The jail inmate was arrested in an altercation case.

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After receiving the news of the incident, the police and the sub-divisional magistrate went to jail.

On January 28, 2020, an undertrial in a NDPS case was found dead in a Tripura jail after which a probe order was issued.

Police said 34-year-old Sanjib Sarkar was found dead in the Kendriya Sansodhanagar (central correctional centre) at Bishalgarh in western Tripura.

โ€œAccording to jail authorities, Sanjib committed suicide. We are now probing the death,โ€ a police official.