Panchkula, June 19 -- A 24-year-old man arrested in a theft case died by suicide at Raipur Rani police station on Wednesday evening.

This is the second such case reported from a police station in Panchkula district this month. On June 8, an unidentified man, suspected to be in his late 30s, was found hanging from a tree outside the anti-corruption bureau police station in Sector-17.

In the fresh case, locals had allegedly caught the 24-year-old red-handed while stealing valuables from a temple on Wednesday morning, and handed him over to the police. Around 4.30 pm, police said, the youngster locked himself inside the malkhana (depositary) and ended his life.

The body was sent to the mortuary for post-mortem on Thursday.

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