Indore: Both natural and man-made woes, pushed a 26-year-old youth to put a full stop to his life on Sunday. Crestfallen by damage to standing Rabi crop by prolonged rain-hailstorm and consequent inability to repay a bank loan, Rajusingh, a farmer allegedly hanged himself to death in Alirajpur district of Madhya Pradesh.
On Sunday evening, he was found hanging to death from a tree in his rain-hailstorm hit agricultural field in Vagdi village of Alirajpur’s Jobat area. He is survived by his widow and two kids, one aged six months and the other, five years old.
He had apparently taken a Rs 1.40-lakh bank loan last year and was relying solely on a good Rabi crop to repay it. But the rain-hailstorm combination hitting the crop badly could have triggered the suicide, Raju’s kin alleged.
The situation is grim. Rajusingh is not the first casualty. In fact, this is the second suicide during last three days in state’s Malwa-Nimar region, where standing Rabi crop has been badly damaged by continued spells of untimely rain and hailstorm.
On Friday, a 45-year-old farmer Bansilal Gupta in Barud area of Khargone district, too had taken the same route, ending his life by consuming pesticide. According to his family, he was acutely depressed over loss of standing wheat crop in 6 acres land by rain-hailstorm.
When contacted, Alirajpur SP Akhilesh Jha said the matter was being investigated.