A 57-year-old woman tried to commit suicide by consuming poison, after he she failed to get her house back from Municipal Corporation of Delhi, on Thursday.
‘Chandra Thakur, a former senior employee of administrative staff in Rani Jhansi School, has been admitted to the hospital and she is out of danger. We have recovered three sleeping pills.
Neighbours told us that Chandra used to visit her sealed flat frequently, as she was living alone in Delhi. On Wednesday evening, one of the neighbours saw her lying unconscious on the stairs near the flat,’ said a senior police officer.
Chandra, a state-level badminton player, who represented Kerala, wrote a suicide note on the wall of the sealed flat, claiming she was committing suicide because of three MCD officials—executive engineer JS Yadav, assistant engineer Bhusan Kumar and junior engineer Sunil Kumar—of Green Park office. She also named a couple, Monika Dhingra and her husband Krishan Kumar Dhingra, who are her neighbours, and Roma Sikka, president of the Residents Welfare Association of the area.
Her house in Vasant Vihar was sealed by MCD officials two years ago and for that, she had been running from one door to another.
The note that the victim has written outside her residence reads, ‘Total number of flats 120 and unauthorised construction done 102. Only 1 flat is sealed, why MCD has not taken an action against others. I committed suicide because of MCD + some neighbours. You can only cremate my body after the…permit de-seal of my flat not before…..’
Everybody whose name is mentioned in the note stays in different floors of the same building, where the victim has a house.
Chandra’s husband Surender Thakur, who was a former hockey Olympian, lives in Libya, while their daughter lives in Australia and son in England. She was living alone in Satguru Apartment in Mehrauli. Thakur had recently come back to India.
The house outside which Chandra attempted suicide is a DDA flat, allotted to her husband in 1988.
Thakur also claimed to be a friend of Delhi’s former top cop, YS Dadwal. She said their family stayed in the house without any problems for 22 years, until they constructed a room on the balcony and the MCD sealed their house on allegations of illegal construction.
‘We have a two-bedroom flat in Block-B of Vasant Vihar. We constructed two rooms on the balcony in 2010. Things were fine until in September 2010, people staying on other floors raised objections on this and started threatening us. We tried convincing the MCD officials but they did not listen to us and sealed our house in January 2011. Since then, we have been staying at a rented accommodation in Mehrauli,’ said Thakur.
Chandra’s husband claimed she was under depression as she was tired of fighting for de-sealing of her house.
Her husband also said that Chandra had to leave her job as a senior administrator in Rani Jhansi School, because of all the trouble due to their house.
The police has registered a case but not taken any action against people mentioned in the note as yet, as they are still examining the matter.
The MCD officials, whose names were in the suicide note, claimed that it was a lawful sealing as the owners of the flat did not remove their encroachment.
‘Chandra Thakur, a former senior employee of administrative staff in Rani Jhansi School, has been admitted to the hospital and she is out of danger. We have recovered three sleeping pills.
Neighbours told us that Chandra used to visit her sealed flat frequently, as she was living alone in Delhi. On Wednesday evening, one of the neighbours saw her lying unconscious on the stairs near the flat,’ said a senior police officer.
Chandra, a state-level badminton player, who represented Kerala, wrote a suicide note on the wall of the sealed flat, claiming she was committing suicide because of three MCD officials—executive engineer JS Yadav, assistant engineer Bhusan Kumar and junior engineer Sunil Kumar—of Green Park office. She also named a couple, Monika Dhingra and her husband Krishan Kumar Dhingra, who are her neighbours, and Roma Sikka, president of the Residents Welfare Association of the area.
Her house in Vasant Vihar was sealed by MCD officials two years ago and for that, she had been running from one door to another.
The note that the victim has written outside her residence reads, ‘Total number of flats 120 and unauthorised construction done 102. Only 1 flat is sealed, why MCD has not taken an action against others. I committed suicide because of MCD + some neighbours. You can only cremate my body after the…permit de-seal of my flat not before…..’
Everybody whose name is mentioned in the note stays in different floors of the same building, where the victim has a house.
Chandra’s husband Surender Thakur, who was a former hockey Olympian, lives in Libya, while their daughter lives in Australia and son in England. She was living alone in Satguru Apartment in Mehrauli. Thakur had recently come back to India.
The house outside which Chandra attempted suicide is a DDA flat, allotted to her husband in 1988.
Thakur also claimed to be a friend of Delhi’s former top cop, YS Dadwal. She said their family stayed in the house without any problems for 22 years, until they constructed a room on the balcony and the MCD sealed their house on allegations of illegal construction.
‘We have a two-bedroom flat in Block-B of Vasant Vihar. We constructed two rooms on the balcony in 2010. Things were fine until in September 2010, people staying on other floors raised objections on this and started threatening us. We tried convincing the MCD officials but they did not listen to us and sealed our house in January 2011. Since then, we have been staying at a rented accommodation in Mehrauli,’ said Thakur.
Chandra’s husband claimed she was under depression as she was tired of fighting for de-sealing of her house.
Her husband also said that Chandra had to leave her job as a senior administrator in Rani Jhansi School, because of all the trouble due to their house.
The police has registered a case but not taken any action against people mentioned in the note as yet, as they are still examining the matter.
The MCD officials, whose names were in the suicide note, claimed that it was a lawful sealing as the owners of the flat did not remove their encroachment.