New Delhi: Delhi gangrape convict, Vinay Sharma allegedly attempted suicide in Tihar jail on Wednesday. He is one of the convicts sentenced to death for rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on December 16, 2012.
According to reports, Vinay Sharma tried to hang himself from an iron grill of his cell using a cloth last night after consuming a heavy dose of anti-depressants. However, he was immediately shifted to Deen Dayal Upadhyay hospital for treatment. Last year, he had demanded more security alleging that he had been beaten up by other inmates.
The victim was fatally assaulted and gang raped by six persons in a moving bus in south Delhi and thrown out of the vehicle on December 16, 2012. She died in a Singapore hospital on December 29.
