Police foils woman's self immolation bid

A 50-year-old widow made a vain attempt to set herself ablaze at the collectorate premises here today after police allegedly prevented her from meeting the Collector to request a probe into the 'mysterious' death of her teenaged daughter.
Police said their personnel present there foiled her attempt and later allowed her to meet the Collector Sandeep Nandoori.
The woman, hailing from Mavadikaalai, about 80 km from here, alleged that the inspector at a police station abused her for lodging the complaint.
She said she wanted to give a complaint to the collector as police could not ascertain the reason behind the mysterious death of her daughter

When police stopped her at the collectorate gate and did not allow her to meet Nandoori at the grievances day meeting, she doused herself with kerosene and tried to set herself ablaze.
However, police at the entrance prevented her lighting the match stick and took her to meet the collector Sandeep Nandoori.