Coimbatore: A 40-year-old guest worker allegedly died in custody at Karumathampatti police station on Monday.
The deceased was identified as Satendra Prasad Bhuiya of Dhanbad district in Jharkhand. “He had started to work as a cook for guest workers at Kumar Nagar in Karumathampatti three days ago. On Monday around 4am, he allegedly attempted to break into a house at Kumar Nagar. Inmates raised an alarm and the neighbours caught him. They thrashed him and tied him up. A team of Karumathampatti police brought him to the station. He became unconscious around 7.40am and was rushed to a government hospital at Somanur. But doctors declared him as brought dead,” a police officer said