A debt-ridden labourer committed suicide by hanging himself in Mohaddinpur village under Ghurpur police station late on Tuesday night. On getting information the Ghurpur police reached the spot after preliminary investigation, took his body into possession and sent it to the post-mortem house.
Sumit Kumar Bhartiya alias Bhaiya (24) of Mohaddinpur village under Ghurpur police station used to take care of his wife and three children. His wife had taken a loan from a micro finance group running in the village for a business, but it did not work. Due to which he could not return the loan. The loan taken from the group increased to around Rs 1 lakh including interest. The group people were allegedly constantly pressurising Sumit and his wife to return the loan.
For the last three days, he was running here and there to arrange money to repay the loan. On Tuesday morning he had left the house saying that he will arrange money. When he came back at night, he was sad. When other family members went out of the house around 7 pm he committed suicide by hanging himself in the room. When the people of the house returned after an hour, they found him hanging on the noose. On getting information the Ghurpur police reached the spot and sent the body for the post-mortem. The family members are in a deep shock due to his death.
Station in-charge Tarachandra said no suicide note has been found. The family members are saying that he was troubled by the debt. The case is being investigated. However, no complaint has been received yet.
PDA bulldozes boundary walls of unauthorised plotting: The Prayagraj Development Authority (PDA) bulldozed boundary walls of unauthorised plotting in Dhoomanganj area by Zaid, once a close associate of Atiq Ahmad, who had later lodged a complaint against the gangster that he had thrashed him in Deoria jail.
An audio talk between Zaid and Atiq had gone viral in which the mafia don was asking Zaid not to go ahead in a land deal.
Zaid is son-in-law of Abid Pradhan, a sharpshooter of Atiq. He had acquired a huge plot of land in Dhoomanganj and was selling it by dividing it into small residential plots.
The PDA authorities took help of police officials, who provided heavy police force for initiating action against the unauthorised plotting. The officials reached the spot with JCB machines and bulldozed the boundary of plots being developed by Zaid.
Zaid is a criminal and a number of cases are registered against him in various police stations in Prayagraj and Kaushambi.
Besides razing to earth the boundary walls of Zaid’s plotting in Dhoomanganj, the PDA officials also demolished boundary of illegal plotting by Uday Yadav near Gayasuddinpur sewage treatment plant.
The PDA had demolished unauthorised plotting by Imran, brother-in-law of Atiq Ahmad in Katahula on June 20.