Tihar Under-trial commits suicide

An under-trial accused of murdering his pregnant wife and three-year-old son, was found hanging in the high-security Tihar Prison complex on Monday. 37-year-old Vikram Bhatia, an architect, allegedly committed suicide at the behavioural therapy ward of jail number 3, where he was kept for treatment of mental illness, at around 7 am. He went to an isolated part of the ward, made a rope with towel strips and hanged himself from a grill of the building, said a jail official, adding that he was rushed to Deen Dayal Updahyay (DDU) Hospital where doctors declared him dead.