Police foil couple suicide bid at Pragati Bhavan

Hyderabad: Police foiled the

suicide

attempt of a

couple

when they tried to torch themselves near CM’s camp office,

Pragati Bhavan

, on Saturday. The couple resorted to the extreme step over a land dispute case.

The couple — Mashamoni Ilaiah (34) and wife Anuradha — were later counselled by cops and let off. They came to Pragati Bhavan and poured fuel on themselves at 10.30 am before trying to torch themselves. Alert cops foiled their bid. The couple along with their three children were later shifted to Panjagutta police station.

The couple complained to cops they were fed up with revenue authorities’ inaction on their five-acre land at Nadargul village in Rangareddy district.

Meanwhile, Ibrahimpatnam tahsildar clarified that Ilaiah’s name was not reflecting in the land records, including pattadar column and possession column. He said Ilaiah’s father Venkaiah was first allotted a five-acre plot in survey No. 58 in Ibrahimpatnam in 1979 and subsequently, it was cancelled. The land was later allotted to Muthyala Sri Ramulu.

“The land was acquired for National Security Guards, which belonged to Sri Ramulu in Ibrahimpatnam Bhagayat village. Later, three others — Middela Vijay Kumar, M Anil Kumar and M Sunil Kumar — got Bhoodan patta certificate in 1998 on five acres in the village,” he said. Compensation was awarded in the names of Anil, Vijay and Sunil in 2010 after it was taken away for setting up the regional centre of NSG, the tahsildar said.

The couple informed cops that they were fed up with inaction from the side of revenue authorities on their five-acre land in Rangareddy’s Nadargul