"After Rajaram Yadav vomitted blood in the morning at the jail he was rushed to the district hospital where the doctors pronounced him brought dead," Tikamgarh Sub-Divisional Officer of Police (SDOP) Nitesh Bhargav claimed.
He said that Yadav was in judicial custody since August 2 last year after Kharagapur police station booked him in a alleged loot incident.
Bhargav said the deceased hailed from Guna village under Kharagapur Police Station area.
A magisterial inquiry has been ordered into the cause of Yadav's death, Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Manoj Thakur said.
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