An 18-year-old tribal boy allegedly committed suicide while in custody inside a police lock-up. The incident occurred in the Sorwa police station, 15 km from Alirajpur on Friday afternoon.
Nakla Badaliya was picked-up by the police after the death of Nanli Nahariya, a 20-year-old Bhil tribal woman from village Kosba. Nakla was prime accused in the murder of Nanli Nahariya and taken to the police station on Thursday after the deceased woman's family named him as the culprit who killed her by shooting an arrow.
Police remained tight-lipped not wanting to even acknowledge the custody death. However, the district collector Rajendra Singh and superintendent of police Chitra Narayan rushed to Sorwa police station to take stock of the situation.
Police sources said that Nakla Badaliya was reportedly found hanging from the ceiling of the lock-up. But how he found the rope or the cloth with which he hung himself is not known. The question that also remains unanswered is how an-18-year-old youth managed to hang himself from the ceiling inside the lock-up at 2 in the afternoon without any policeman noticing it.
On Wednesday, Nanli Nahariya was returning home with her brother. On the outskirts of the village a poisonous arrow struck her and she fell down unconscious. A day later, the woman succumbed to her injury and the family reported the matter to the police.
The Alirajpur-Jhabua belt has a pre-dominant Bhil tribal population who still carry bows and arrows for self- defence. Nakla was one such youth who dressed in the traditional Bhil attire and hunted with bows and arrows. It is not known how and why, his arrow hit 20-year-old Nanli, hailing from the same village.
Sources in the police department argued that Nakla was depressed that he his arrow had allegedly killed a woman of the village. He was depressed and possibly that was the reason he took the extreme step in Sorwa police station.
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