LUCKNOW, Nov. 1 -- Four days before court verdict in a 17-year-old loot case, a history-sheeter from Sultanpur allegedly ended his life by shooting himself in the chest on Saturday morning, senior police officials said. The incident occurred at his residence in Galibaha village under Kadipur police station limits in Sultanpur, where he lived separately from his parents, they added.

Sultanpur's Baldirai circle officer (CO) Ashutosh Kumar told media persons that Durgesh Singh, alias Monu, aged around 35 years, had around ten criminal cases registered against him, including the LIC loot case in Kadipur. He said Durgesh was scheduled to face sentencing on November 5 in connection with the loot case and had returned to his village only two da...