Ahmedabad: A 39-year-old migrant labourer, who had approached Shaherkotda police for help after losing his job in Jamnagar, was found hanging inside the police station’s electrical room hours later, police said. The man, identified as Raju Ramnakshatra Jatav, was found hanging from a ceiling fan at around 8.30am on Monday.According to police, a PCR van received a call through the police control room at 3.48am on Monday regarding a man. The PCR team reached the spot and found Jatav, who said he had been dismissed from his job. He told police that he was a native of Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh and had been working as a labourer at Moti Khavdi in Jamnagar for around three months. He was on a train back home but got down at Asarwa railway station, from where he contacted the police control room as he was being harassed.Police said Jatav was visibly tense. He was brought to the police station and counselled by personnel on duty. Police also facilitated a phone call between Jatav and his family in UP who assured him they would transfer money online the next morning for him to return home. Due to the heavy rain and with no place to go, Jatav requested that he be allowed to wait at the police station till the money arrived. Officers let him sit in the waiting area and made an entry in the station diary, police said.An officer completing his shift around 8.30am found the door of the electrical room locked from inside and there was no response. Looking through the window, policemen found him hanging from the ceiling fan.A forensic postmortem was conducted by a panel of doctors and videographed in the presence of a sub-divisional magistrate during the inquest proceedings. A case of accidental death has been registered.
