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Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

A 52-year-old man who con­fessed to the mur­der of 15-year-old autis­tic teenag­er Ma­li­ni Per­sad took his own life while in po­lice cus­tody, us­ing his pants to hang him­self in a cell at the Bar­rack­pore Po­lice Sta­tion.

A po­lice source said the sus­pect, who was de­tained on Wednes­day in con­nec­tion with the teenag­er’s dis­ap­pear­ance and death, re­port­ed­ly con­fessed to po­lice be­fore be­ing grant­ed per­mis­sion to take a bath.