Debt-ridden farmer commits suicide in UP’s Shamli

Muzaffarnagar, April 22

A debt-ridden farmer allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison at a village in Shamli district, police said on Monday.

Rajender, 50, had taken a loan from a cooperative society and was finding it difficult to repay it, according to village head Bijender Kumar.

Rajender consumed poison on Sunday and was rushed to a hospital where he was declared dead. The body had been sent for postmortem, police added. PTI