HYDERABAD: On Saturday, a suspended Telangana government officer who had been detained in connection with a land fraud two years prior was found dead. Ch. Sujatha, a former Sheikhpet Mandal Revenue Officer (MRO), was found dead. The death's cause was unknown.
It is under suspision that she committed suicide like her husband, who had jumped to death after her arrest in 2020. However, family member of Sujatha, said she was under treatment for dengue and suffered cardiac arrest.
Ajay Kumar, Sujatha's husband, killed himself on June 17, 2020, by jumping off the roof of a five-story house in Chikkadpally, where his sister resides.
An assistant professor of political science at Osmania University, Ajay took the severe step a few days after Sujatha was detained and sent to jail in a land scam.
Sujatha was detained by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on June 8, 2020, in connection with a corruption accusation involving more than 4,865 square yards of land in Hyderabad's affluent Banjara Hills. Sujatha's house in Gandhi Nagar was searched by the ACB, who have found gold jewellery and Rs 30 lakh in cash. She has previously served as MRO for the zones in Mushirabad and Amberpet.
The ACB had also detained Sub-Inspector of Police of Banjara Hills A. Ravindra Naik for demanding Rs 3 lakh from Khalid and taking half of it, and Revenue Inspector Nagarjuna Reddy for receiving a bribe of Rs 15 lakh from complainant Syed Abdul Khalid.
The land's market worth was put at Rs 40 crore. Sujatha had reported Khalid's encroachment on public property to the Banjara Hills police.
Later, when Khalid went to Sujatha for for resolution of the issue, she directed that he speak with Nagarjuna Reddy, a revenue inspector who sought a Rs 30 lakh bribe. After the complaint went to the ACB, the officials set up a trap and Nagarjuna Reddy was caught in the act.
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