The investigators are not considering Gajendra Singh’s suicide note as his ‘dying testimony’ as he had not mentioned that he was going to take such step. Delhi Police Crime Branch has planned to send Gajendra’s note to forensic lab to match his handwriting as well. Police had recovered a small note from the spot in which he had written that he was depressed due to crop destruction.
Sources said that that the investigators have cross-checked the small note, purportedly written by Gajendra, which he threw before hanging himself from the tree. The note was spotted by an Aam Aadmi Party supporter and given it a Hindi news channel reporter. It was later handed over to the police.
The note in Hindi reads: “Friends, I am the son of a farmer. My father threw me out of the house after my crops were destroyed by the rain. I have three children. Friends, I am from Nangal village in Rajasthan’s Dausa direct. Tell me, how can I go back homeIJ Jai Jawan Jai Kisan. Gajendra Singh Kalyan.” On the other side of the note there was a mobile number, which police declared was of his relative.
“Even though he was depressed, nowhere in the note does he say he is going to kill himself. This puts a question mark over his suicide. Could he have been instigatedIJ We need to find out,” said a senior officer. Sources said that the investigators have planned to send it to the Forensic Science laboratory to match his handwriting.
Singh’s family members have also raised doubts on his handwriting. The team of Crime Branch who visited his native village in Dausa district in Rajasthan was told that Singh was in touch with an AAP’s senior leader Manish Sisodia, who invited him to join the rally.
The team led by an Assistant Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Suresh Kaushik questioned several family members of Singh and recorded their statements. The team tried to ascertain the actual reason of his depression. A family member told the police that before they got news about his death, Singh had called his wife and asked her to saw him on the television.
The mobile of Singh has been recovered and police is trying to get his call records to identify the people with whom he was in touch with after coming to Delhi. Another team of Crime Branch visited the spot at Jantar Mantar and recreated the scene. They also questioned some shopkeepers. Meanwhile, the preliminary autopsy report suggests that Singh died due to hanging but the police still awaiting final report.