A man who climbed a cell tower opposite Telangana
Legislative Assembly here on Tuesday, threatening to end his life by
taking the plunge was counselled and convinced by the city police to
climb down.
The drama lasted for about 20 minutes,
bang opposite the Assembly complex, even as the House was discussing the
severity of farmers’ woes and how they were taking the extreme step.
Unnoticed by anyone, Sammaiah, hailing from the outskirts of Warangal
climbed the back wall of the All India Radio and unseen by anyone
climbed up the cell tower.
When police got to know
about it, Deputy Commissioner-Central Zone V.B. Kamalhasan Reddy
promptly asked Additional DCP M. Ramamohan to tackle the situation. The
latter managed to convince Sammaiah for him to yell out his mobile phone
number. Once Mr. Ramamohan got the phone number, he called the
distraught man and initiated a conversation, even as the poor man took a
sip of a pesticide.
“Sammaiah said he was at his
wits’ end, not knowing what to do. He had served as a driver for a
while, but currently does not have any job. Owning a small piece of land
in a nearby village did not fetch him any revenue, only loans piled up.
He wanted Deputy Chief Minister Kadiam Srihari to come out of the
Assembly and speak to him. But we convinced him to come down from the
tower,” the police officer said.
“After he came down,
we put him in an ambulance and sent him for medical assistance after
administering first aid. Once he is better, he will be taken to the
Secretariat for an audience with Mr. Srihari,” Mr. Ramamohan said.
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