Kanpur: Police on Thursday registered an abetment-to-suicide case against village head Dharmendra Singh Yadav and his brothers, Pushpendra and Gyanendra, after a 48-year-old farmer was allegedly found hanging at his Etawah home on Wednesday morning.According to police, the deceased, a resident of Ramaupura Parsauli village, had been involved in a dispute over the construction of a road through his field. His family accused the village head and his relatives of harassment and demanded action.His daughter, Radha, alleged that on Oct 9, the village head sought to construct a road through the field, while her father insisted that the land first be measured. She alleged that Bakewar police subsequently took him to the police station and confined him overnight.According to the family, the deceased left in his four-wheeler on Tuesday morning to get CNG, but a financier seized the vehicle on the way. The family also alleged that he had received a death threat.The family initially refused to allow police to remove the body and demanded the arrest of the accused. After police registered the case against Dharmendra and his brothers, the body was sent for postmortem.On Thursday, SP MP Jitendra Dohre accompanied Radha and other family members to meet the SSP and demanded the arrest of the accused. Dohre alleged that Vishesh had died by suicide due to harassment by the village head. He questioned why the accused had not been arrested despite registration of the case.Meanwhile, Pradhan Sangathan held a meeting in Bakewar and submitted a memorandum to station in-charge Vipin Malik, demanding a fair police investigation.
