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Arrested for attempt to commit suicide

Varanasi: Five physically-challenged traders, who survived a mass suicide bid allegedly instigated last week, were on Sunday arrested after registration of a criminal case against them on the charge of trying to commit suicide, police said. Mohammad Naseem, Satish Seth, Bharat Lal, Khalilur Rahman and Mohammad Wasim were arrested on being discharged from a hospital.

Thirteen physically-challenged traders had consumed a poisonous substance here on July 31 in a mass suicide bid to protest demolition of their roadside shops in an anti-encroachment drive by the municipal authorities recently, of whom five persons died during treatment. — PTI

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