Undertrial jumps to death from court building

Mangaluru: A man

accused

in a

Pocso case

died after he

jumped

from the sixth floor of a

court building

here on Tuesday evening. The deceased is Raviraj,31, painter and a resident of Kinya.

City police commissioner N Shashi Kumar said the incident took place around 4.45pm. The

undertrial

, after completing court procedures, escaped from the hands of police and jumped from the court’s sixth floor, and succumbed to

severe head injuries

. Police personnel, who were with him, tried their best to stop him, but failed.

The city police had on Monday arrested Raviraj under the Pocso Act. Raviraj had been accused of inappropriately touching a minor girl in a public place near Thokkottu on Monday afternoon. He was arrested within hours after the incident, following the girl’s complaint. A case under IPC 224 was registered against Raviraj at Ullal police station, Shashi Kumar said.