Janakpur, June 14 -- The in-custody death of a Musahar man in Janakpur has prompted protests against police.

Shambhu Sada, 23, was found dead of an apparent suicide inside the toilet of his cell in the Sabaila Area Police Office on June 10. He had turned himself in to the police after his tractor killed 42-year-old Sumindra Devi Sah and injured another person at Dhanusadham on May 25.

While police say that Sada committed suicide, his friends and family have contested the police's claim. Siyali Devi, Sada's mother, has alleged that the police murdered her son and staged his death as a suicide.

Following Sada's death, his friends and family have been organising protest rallies in Janakpur demanding a fair and impartial investigation into...