Vishal Gawli, accused of kidnapping, raping and murdering a minor girl in Maharashtra's Kalyan, hanged himself using a towel at 3:30 in the morning. According to a Taloja jail official, his body was sent to JJ Hospital in Mumbai for post-mortem.
The fire was confined to electric wiring, electric installations in the common meter box and electric wiring in the common passage on the ground floor plus upper 11 floored high-rise building.
The accused, identified as Arif Mehboob Qureshi was sent to judicial custody on September 20 by the police for assaulting and stalking a 16-year-old girl, the police said.
According to fire officials, the charred body of an unknown man was found in the bathroom at the premises and was moved to JJ Hospital in an ambulance. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials have launched an inquiry into any other injured or missing person in the incident.
Amid the increasing pollution in the city, Mumbai's JJ Hospital has opened a separate OPD ward to provide emergency treatment to patients suffering from respiratory problems.