Hyderabad: A middle-aged woman in Kukatpally, died by suicide on Friday, September 27, allegedly fearing demolition of her house by the Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRA).
However, Kukatpally police and HYDRA chairman AV Ranganath clarified that the agency had nothing to do with the suicide.
G Buchamma and her husband G Shivaiah, residents of Yadava Basthi in Kukatpally, have three daughters. The couple gave the house to the daughters in dowry, to share among themselves.
Addressing the media on Saturday, AV Ranganath said that he felt very sad coming to know about an elderly woman like her committing suicide due to fearing HYDRA demolishing her property.
“What happened there was that Bucchamma had three daughters, and she had given two G+1 houses and an open plot to her daughters in dowry. All these structures fall under the buffer-zone, but we were not going to touch those structures. But some locals instilled fear in her minds by showing HYDRA as a monster. HYDRA was not constituted with that objective. HYDRA is not a monster, it is a Bharosa,” Ranganath assured.
According to Kukatpally CI Muthu, Bucchamma’s house is located on the Kukatpally main road close to BJP party office, and there was no HYDRA marking for demolition there.
Though Bucchamma’s relatives have said in the video being circulated on social media that she died depressed over HYDRA demolitions, CI Muthu informed Siasat.com that Bucchamma was a home-maker, and that they were living in a G+2 building.
He further said that she died by hanging herself, the cause of which was not yet known. He said that her daughters were well-settled and owned houses in RC Puram and Moosapet.
On Saturday, when the police had gone to shift her body for post-mortem, the BRS workers created a scene there, but the police managed to take her mortal remains to the hospital, got the post-mortem performed, and handed it over to the family members.
CI Muthu noted that the area where she was living at, was BRS dominated.
The deceased’s nieces told the media that Buchamma was a lady of courage and character, adding that she wasn’t someone who would take the extreme step. Other relatives alleged that she died due to fear of the demolition drive.
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