Nutan Singh Tewatia, wife of farmer leader Manvir Singh Tewatia who hit headlines during the clash between the police and Bhatta-Parsaul farmers in 2011, attempted suicide on Saturday.
Nutan allegedly tried hanging herself at her Greater Noida home. She has been admitted in the ICU of a city hospital and is in a critical condition, police said. No case has been registered with this regard so far.
According to the police, they received information about the incident around 6.15 am. The victim was rushed to the hospital by relatives and doctors have put her on a ventilator. "She is not in a condition to talk and her family members were not clear about the sequence of events which led to the suicide attempt," said Brijesh Kumar Singh, Superintendent of Police (Rural), Greater Noida. "We are conducting a detailed investigation into the case," Kumar added.
It may be recalled that Nutan's husband Manveer Singh Tewatia had been released from Dasna jail after two years on June 5, 2013. He had been lodged in jail since July 22, 2011, for abducting Government officials and killing a policeman.
The police had booked Tewatia in 22 cases including a case of murder.