A suspended Telangana government official, who was arrested in a land scam two years ago, was found dead under suspicious circumstances here today.
Ch. Sujatha, former Mandal Revenue Officer (MRO) of Sheikhpet, was found dead. The cause of the death was not known.
It is suspected that she committed suicide like her husband, who had jumped to death after her arrest in 2020.
Family members of Sujatha, however, said she was undergoing treatment for dengue and suffered cardiac arrest.
Sujatha’s husband Ajay Kumar committed suicide on June 17, 2020, by jumping from the terrace of a five-storey residential building at Chikkadpally where his sister lives.
An assistant professor of political science at Osmania University, Ajay took the extreme step a few days after Sujatha was arrested and sent to jail for a land scam.
