Representative ImagePUNE: A criminal on police records, arrested recently in an ATM theft case, slit his wrist and neck multiple times using a zip runner of his trousers in the Pimpri police lock-up on Sunday afternoon.
The Pimpri Chinchwad crime branch had recently arrested Ajaysingh Dudhani (20) with his accomplice in connection with the theft of an automated teller machine (ATM) containing Rs 5.71 lakh from a kiosk at Thermax Chowk in Nigdi. He was in the custody of the Nigdi police and was kept in the lock-up at the Pimpri police station.
Around 1.30pm on Sunday, an officer from the Nigdi police had gone to the lock up for interrogating Dudhani.
“To avoid the interrogation, Dudhani ripped off the zip runner of his trousers and slit his hands and neck,” said an officer from the Pimpri police.