The Independent Police Investigative Directorate Ipid is probing a death in police custody.
This after a 43-year-old man shot and killed himself in a police charge office at Ventersburg police station on Monday.
The man was arrested at a tavern in Winburg over the weekend after his wife reported a case of kidnapping and rape against him.
She told police that on Saturday evening, the deceased forced her out of her house into a vehicle at gunpoint, leaving her six-year-old daughter alone.
The deceased reportedly went back inside the house and returned to the car where he drove to an unknown location where she was raped.
