Two attempt suicide at Mantralaya after failing to meet CM

MUMBAI: Two persons attempted suicide on the Mantralaya premises around 4pm on Tuesday after they failed to meet chief minister Devendra Fadnavis over their grievances.

MUMBAI: Two persons attempted suicide on the Mantralaya premises around 4pm on Tuesday after they failed to meet chief minister Devendra Fadnavis over their grievances.

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In the first case, Aurangabad resident Dilip More, a farmer, was in the city to meet the CM, as he was dissatisfied with the police investigation carried out into the death of his brother in 2011.

Senior inspector Popat Yadav from Marine Drive police station said, “His brother’s body was found hanging from the ceiling but More claims his brother was murdered and the accused tried to prove it to be a suicide.”

More had brought a few photographs to show it to the chief minister and wanted him to order the Usmanpura police to investigate the “murder”.

More is now out of danger as he was stopped from consuming the rat poison, which he had got along with him.

An officer said, “More claimed he had not eaten anything for the past two days. He was admitted to GT Hospital and he is stable.”

In the second case, Dinesh Padaya, a resident of Mulund, consumed poison and entered the Mantralaya premises. An officer said, “Padaya consumed 100ml poison near the Mantralaya and entered the premises, as he had problems with the Slum Rehabilitation Authority development programme. He owned two shops and a house in a building which has now gone to the SRA. There were irregularities in the area of the shop which was to be given to him.”