A 58-year-old farmer died on Monday morning who attempted suicide by consuming posion on Saturday, he was depressed after his wife eloped with valuables over Rs 25 lakh.
The deceased identified as Shiv Charan Mewada used to live in Khajuri Road area and consumed poison to commit suicide on Saturday.
Shiv's son has alleged that his father was under stress due to mother.
Eight months ago, the mother had left the house with a neighboring youth along with goods worth Rs 25 lakh including gold and silver jewelery and cash. Due to this stress, he had attempted suicide in the past also.
The police have registered a case and started investigation. On Monday afternoon, the police handed over the body to the relatives after a postmortem.
Shivcharan Mewada was a resident of Khajuri village. His son Dharmendra Mevada said that the mother had gone missing eight months ago. Her missing complaint was registered at Khajuri police station. The mother took with her cash Rs 4 to Rs 5 lakh and gold and silver jewellery, FD and goods worth Rs 20-25 lakh.
Dharmendra said that in this case we had registered the name of a suspicious youth from the village in the police station.
SI Lalji Mishra was investigating the case. The mother is with the suspect whose name we had registered in the police station. We got concrete information about this and told the police that the suspected youth and mother were living in Pithampur. The police did not take any action. His number was active, he was not even called for enquiry.