Another MP farmer ends life, toll up to 22
28YEAROLD RAGHUVIR YADAV ALLEGEDLY CONSUMED SULPHAS TABLETS IN HIS FIELD ON THURSDAY
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.