UP: 71-year-old farmer kills self, family flags inaction of revenue officials in land dispute
Budaun (UP) (PTI): A 71-year-old farmer in Uttar Pradesh's Budaun district allegedly killed himself by consuming poison after revenue officials did not pay any heed to his repeated complaints regarding a land dispute, police said on Friday.
According to the police, Room Singh, a resident of Nagla Sharki village, consumed poison at the Sadar tehsil office in Budaun Thursday and died at a hospital late in the night.
After a post-mortem, the body was handed over to his family on Friday. His family members and relatives kept the body on the Bareilly-Mathura road and blocked it for around four-and-half hours in protest.
Room Singh's son Sandeep claimed that a piece of land of his father was registered in another person's name in connivance with tehsil and revenue officials this year.
Room Singh made rounds of the tehsil office for redressal but to no avail. Distressed, he consumed poison at the tehsil office on Thursday, his son said.
Based on a complaint filed by his family, a case has been registered against two revenue officials and the person in whose name the land was registered.
District Magistrate Manoj Kumar said the additional district magistrate (finance and revenue) will probe the matter and submit a report within a week.
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4 killed as SUV rams into truck in Jharkhand's Hazaribag
Hazaribag (PTI): Four people were killed after their SUV rammed into a truck in Jharkhand's Hazaribag district on Saturday, police said.
The accident happened around 6 pm on NH-2 in Danua Valley in the Chouparan police station area, they said.
"The accident happened due to speeding and the SUV driver's attempt to overtake the truck, during which he lost control of the vehicle," said Saroj Kumar Singh, the officer-in-charge of the Chouparan police station.
The deceased are yet to be identified, he said, adding that the car has a Dhanbad registration.
Singh said the impact of the collision was such that the SUV was badly damaged.
"The bodies of the victims were retrieved from the vehicle and sent for post-mortem examination," he said.
