India, July 9 -- A self-proclaimed cow vigilante and one of the accused in the 2023 Bhiwani lynching case, died by suicide on July 5 after allegedly jumping in front of a train near Palwal on the Delhi-Agra rail route, police said on Tuesday.

His death triggered a fresh controversy after a video purportedly recorded before the suicide surfaced, in which the man, Lokesh Singla, accused senior Bajrang Dal members of harassment and mental torture.

The purported video, veracity of which could not be independently verified by HT, went viral shortly after his death, and was allegedly sent via WhatsApp to his wife, Damyanti.

In it, Singla claims he was being followed, threatened, and blackmailed by three individuals-identified as Bharat Bhush...