more-inA labourer set his wife and two children ablaze besides attempting to commit suicide in a similar fashion on the Collectorate premises here on Monday even as the weekly grievance redressal meet was going on. Their condition is critical, the doctors at Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital said. Police said Esakkimuthu (30) of Kasidharmam under Achchanpudhur police station limits in the district had borrowed Rs. Unable to bear with the harassment, Esakkimuthu had submitted petition during the weekly grievance redressal meet on six occasions seeking action against the usurer. ''I, along with my brother's family, had come to the collectorate this morning to submit the petition again.

Source: The Hindu October 23, 2017 06:44 UTC