India, Sept. 21 -- Out on parole after being convicted in a case of robbery and murder and another of rape, a 40-year-old man allegedly raped a 14-year-old girl in an outer Delhi locality on Saturday and died allegedly by suicide hours later while in police custody at a station on Sunday.

Senior police officers said the man hanged himself in a lockup at the Samaypur Badli station, and that the guard deployed outside the cell had been suspended.

However, the man's relatives alleged that they saw the police beat him up in the police station on Saturday night, and questioned how he was able to kill himself despite being in police custody.

The man hailed from Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh, and lived in Delhi's outskirts for over two decades...