A 19-year-old man arrested on the charge of raping a minor girl hanged himself at the Taloja central jail in Navi Mumbai, the police said on Thursday. Officials suspect the undertrial might have been disturbed due to the rape case against him.

The police said the man, identified as Karan Pramod Serian, was found hanging from a ceiling fan in a barrack in the early hours of Tuesday. After being informed by other inmates, jail authorities took him to a hospital where he was declared dead before admission.