Initially we came to know that constables were sleeping, but we have to investigate this too. Officials then did a punchnama and around 10 am his body was sent to JJ Hospital for post-mortem. Our official got suspicious when he didn’t return after 20 minutes. With the help of CCTV footage he was arrested in his home in Keshav Pada, China Small broom with dustpan Mulund. The crime branch has initiated a probe to ascertain whether Rathod had indeed committed suicide, the police said. He had kept the tap running.Recalling the incident, inspector Diwakar Shelke said, “He entered the toilet with suicide on his mind. Crime branch official Sanjay Surve said, “We are taking the statements of other inmates and police officials who were present at the time.
On April 27 he allegedly stole `5 lakh in cash and some jewellery from the home. When he didn’t hear a reply, the official called all other officers on the night shift and opened the door. Doctors said there weren’t any bruises on his body.A 20-year-old man, who was arrested on April 29 in a house-breaking case, allegedly committed suicide in a Mulund police station toilet early on Monday morning.”Around 3 am the police called doctors. Rathod would visit the house to drop and pick up Vidya. He went near the toilet door and called out to Rathod two to three times. He was in police custody for eight months in the Bhandup case while he had been remanded to police custody till May 3 in the Mulund case. According to police officials, the incident occurred at 2 am when accused Amit Ravi Rathod asked a constable for permission to go to the toilet.
Rathod has three cases of housebreaking registered against him in Mulund and Bhandup police station. Apparently Rathod had used a bucket to hang himself from a window that is seven feet from the floor. Thirty minutes later, the officials discovered that he had allegedly used his shirt to hang himself from the window of the toilet.”.Rathod was arrested for his alleged involvement in a housebreaking and theft in a house in Swapna Nagari where Rathod’s wife, Vidya, worked as a help.There were three inmates in the lockup along with Rathod and one independent witness who had come to police station to lodge an non-cognisable complaint, the police said
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