Sanghmingthanga alias Lalbuanga (40) was accused of murdering a 42-year-old woman of Lungsen on October 16. The suspect has another criminal case pending regarding rape of a minor girl.
On Monday evening, angry residents of Lungsen flocked to Lungsen police station urging the police to quickly solve the murder case. In a bid to prevent any untoward incident, the police secured the lock-up gates. The police officials also appealed to the crowd to disperse.
After the commotion subsided, the suspect was found hanging with a blanket from the iron bar of the ventilator inside the lock-up.
Sources said the suspect had not yet confessed to the crime before he allegedly committed suicide.
The suspect lived in the village of the victim.
One Lalchhuanawmi was found dead with her head severed from her neck with a sharp object on Saturday. As the woman failed to return from the jhum on Saturday evening, her husband and neighbours went searching for her and later found her body. She had gone to jhum alone.