However, Salman's family and friends alleged he died due to police torture and they staged a protest outside Ambedkar Nagar police station here this evening.
As per police, Mohd Salman, who was arrested in a murder case from Ambedkar Nagar police station in the first week of January, had tried to commit suicide by hanging from the bathroom's grill on the intervening night of 8 and 9 January and had been admitted in DDU Hospital since then and was on ventilator.
According to Tihar authorities, a judicial inquiry has been ordered into the case.