Duped by lawyer, youth attempts suicide in old city

Losses in share market trading, and being cheated by a criminal lawyer pushed a youth in old city in Hyderabad to attempt suicide on Monday night.

The youngster, Latif, poured kerosene on himself and tried to set himself ablaze. He suffered 50 percent injuries on his body. Latif was working as a mediator in share market. 

With consecutive losses in the business, the investors were pressurizing him for money. Then, he approached a criminal lawyer for assistance. After giving an assurance to Latif that all form of legal assistance will be provided, the lawyer duped him.

The lawyer took the house documents, passport and other important documents from Latif. He also took the signatures of Latif on empty cheques and started blackmailing him. 

Realising that he was being cheated, Latif attempted suicide on Monday night. His family members immediately shifted him to Osmania Hospital.

Begum Bazar police registered a case and have started their investigations. 

"You don't want that situation where some residue of the past can come in the way. But India does need a younger man in touch with modern game," the batting great said.

"The way things work in India is completely different. Kirsten was never the most talented cricketer but he was very successful in both Tests and ODIs. He did it the hard way and when he spoke to the players about value of hard work and training, they listened to him. You need someone with a positive outlook, with fair bit of receptivity and flexible thinking," the legendary opener said.

He said that India as a team has not improved one bit in these three years.

"In Fletcher's tenure, there has hardly been any improvement as a team. There has been no improvement of players individually also. Somewhere, this slide needs to be stopped. There is still 11 months left for the World Cup. It's a lot of time and the current lot has done nothing," he fumed.

Gavaskar spoke about how Indian teams over the years got major success under former India players.

"Only successful cricketer who wasn't successful as a coach was Greg Chappell and that too for a variety of reasons. Look what we did after the 2007 World Cup disaster. Ravi Shastri (Bangladesh), Chandu Borde (England), Lalchand Rajput (World T20 in South Africa), Chetan Chauhan (manager in Australia) were there with the teams. We had an incredible year," the man with 34 Test centuries and 10,122 runs to his name, said.

"In 1983 World Cup, we had an Indian as a manager (PR Man Singh) and in 1985 World Championship of Cricket in Australia, it was Erapalli Prasanna who was the manager. Which means that we have capable people who can successfully run the team," he said.

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