A farmer allegedly reeling under huge debt committed suicide by consuming some poisonous substance at his house in a nearby Datoda village on Friday.
The deceased identified as Devkaran Kumawat alias Kallu, according to family members, was reeling under acute mental tension on account of failure of his crop and his inability to pay loan which he had taken from the bank and local money lenders.
Family members of the deceased said Devkaran had taken a loan of Rs 16 lakh from a bank a local money lenders. Though he had repaid the loan amount, the money lenders were still exerting pressure on him to pay the remaining loan amount. As his financial condition had crippled because of the crop failure, the farmer was reeling under acute mental tension for the past sometime, forcing him to take such an extreme step, the family members said.
According to Simrol police, the incident came to light when the deceased was found lying in an unconscious state in his room by his family members on Friday. He was immediately rushed to the hospital but the doctors declared him brought dead.On being informed, Simrol police rushed to the incident site, did Rs panchnama' of the body and sent it to hospital for postmortem. Police also recovered a suicide note from the spot wherein the deceased had accused three money lenders, forcing him to take such an extreme step.
In the suicide note, Devkaran had accused three money lenders - namely Gajanan, Bhavrilal and Kamalchand of beating him up despite repaying loan to them and stated that he was not able to bear the shame of being beaten.The deceased is survived by wife and two married daughters. Police have seized the suicide note and registered a case.