A 51-year-old convict serving a life sentence in a murder case was found hanging inside a cell at the Poojapura Central Prison and Correctional Home in Thurivananthapuram, police said on Thursday.
The body will be handed over to his relatives after a postmortem examination. Police are conducting a detailed investigation into the incident, officials added. The FIR was registered under Section 194 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) on Thursday based on a written complaint from the prison’s joint superintendent, police said. Sreenivasan had been transferred from the Nettukaltheri Open Jail to the Central Prison and Correctional Home in December 2019 after he went absconding while on parole, police said.
Police said he had recently been diagnosed with cancer and had been depressed since then.
The deceased was identified as Sreenivasan, a native of Kollengode, Palakkad, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in a 2004 murder case by the Additional Sessions Fast Track Court in his native district.
