Accused in POCSO case found dead in court premises

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A 35-year-old nether proceedings accused successful a POCSO lawsuit allegedly ended his beingness by jumping from the 5th level of the City Civil Court gathering present connected Thursday.

The deceased Gowtham M. was escorted to the tribunal from Parappana Agrahara jailhouse on with 4 different accused for a tribunal hearing. Gowtham, who returned from washroom and was handcuffed again, jumped from the tribunal building, portion his household members, police, advocates, and radical watched successful shock. He was rushed to the hospital, wherever helium was declared dead.

A nonmigratory of K.R. Puram, Gowtham was arrested by the Adugodi constabulary connected April 21, this year, and had been successful judicial custody astatine the Parappana Agrahara Central Prison. On Thursday, he, on others identified arsenic Sagar, Abhishek Gowda, and Syed Imran was brought to the City Civil Court analyzable for a hearing. He was among the 4 accused progressive successful antithetic cases brought to the tribunal for proceeding .

According to the officials, ideally, the information unit handcuff 2 accused with a agelong chain. The constabulary fishy that it was planned. Gowtham went to the washroom and helium was handcuffed again, arsenic his hands were bedewed and helium abruptly jumped, got the handcuff retired owing to abrupt thrust, and crashed connected the ground. Due to the impact, the different accused sustained fracture injuries connected his hand. Gowtham was rushed to Victoria Hospital, wherever helium succumbed to his injuries.

A autochthonal of Rajasthan, Gowtham ran an electrical store successful Chickpete and lived with his woman successful A. Narayanapura successful K.R. Puram. His household members, who were contiguous successful the court, were near stunned by the incident. He had been booked for allegedly sexually assaulting a girl, which helium had denied. However, the DNA trial study allegedly confirmed his role, which led him to instrumentality the utmost step, the constabulary said.

The Halasuru Gate constabulary person registered a lawsuit nether conception 132 (assaulting oregon utilizing transgression unit against a nationalist servant to forestall them from performing their authoritative duties) and 262 ( absorption oregon obstruction by a idiosyncratic to their ain lawful apprehension oregon flight from lawful custody for an offence) of the BNS for further investigations.

(Those successful distress oregon those having suicidal tendencies tin telephone Arogya Sahayavani Ph.: 104 for help.)

Published - October 09, 2025 09:48 p.m. IST

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