Another MP farmer ends life, toll up to 22

28YEAROLD RAGHUVIR YADAV ALLEGEDLY CONSUMED SULPHAS TABLETS IN HIS FIELD ON THURSDAY

BHOPAL: Another farmer from Bundelkhand’s Chattarpur district allegedly ended his life, taking the number of agriculture-related suicides in Madhya Pradesh to 22 since the June 6 violence in Mandsaur.

Twenty-eight-year-old Raghuvir Yadav from Chattarpur’s Pali village allegedly consumed sulphas tablets in his field on Thursday. His father, Deshpat Yadav said there was a loan of over ₹10 lakh on Raghuvir but authorities claim he committed suicide due to a dispute in the family.

Raghuvir was rushed to Chhatarpur district hospital, from where he was referred to the hospital in Gwalior but he died en route. Raghuvir was a contract farmer and had been suffering losses in farming for many years due to which he kept on taking loans, said local sources .

SC Dhohre, sub-divisional officer of police, Bijawar, said the suicide was not due to the loans but due to a dispute in the family.

A day earlier, Dhohre said, Deshpat filed a complaint that his sons — Raghuvir and Munshi Yadav — would fight with him over division of property and had threatened to throw him out of the house. “Police has started investigating,” said Dhohre.

Meanwhile, a 65-year-old farmer, facing financial difficulties, allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree in Rajasthan’s Jhalawar district on Friday evening.