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Road-widening: mother, son threaten to commit suicide

Staff Reporter

Shop-keepers join protest; five held

DESPERATE ACT: Pasupuleti Naveen, atop the building his family owns, threatening to commit suicide on Tuesday.

VIJAYAWADA: The ongoing exercise of widening Bandar road took an ugly turn on Tuesday when a mother-son duo, who owns a building opposite All India Radio, obstructed the staff of the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation from demolishing a portion of their building.

Pasupuleti Vijayalakshmi and Pasupuleti Naveen, who own Sri Srinivasa Nilayam at Punnammathota adjacent to Bandar road, in which some shops were let out, created fracas around 6 p.m. when VMC teams arrived there to widen the road to 100 feet.

The mother sat before the earth moving machinery brought by the VMC teams for pulling down the structure and refused to give way unless the operation was called off.

Her son climbed atop the building and threatened to commit suicide if the VMC staff did not back out.

Constables of the Suryaraopet police station overpowered the lad and brought him down, while Governorpet sub-inspector Sahera picked up the mother. Some of the owners of shops in the building joined the protest.

The Suryaraopet police later arrested five persons in all, on the charge of obstructing public servants from discharging their duty.

The police charged Gorrela Venkateswara Rao, Meda Suresh Kumar, Pasupuleti Vijayalakshmi, Pasupuleti Naveen and Venkateswara Rao, a photo studio owner in the building with obstructing the VMC staff from demolishing portions of the building.

The police acted on a complaint lodged by supervisor in the planning section of the VMC, Uma Maheswara Rao. The police registered a case under section 353 of the IPC.

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