Farmer kills self in Chhattisgarh

A 40-year-old farmer allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree in Chhattisgarh's Dhamtari district today, which is the third such incident in the state in the last five days.
"Chandrahas Sahu ended his life by hanging himself from a tree in a field at his native Bagdahi village under Kurud police station limits. No suicide note was found from the spot," a local police official said.
A case was registered, he said adding a probe was on.
Sahu is survived by his mother, wife and six daughters. One of his daughters was married.
Officials from the district administration said prima facie enquiry revealed that the farmer was suffering from some prolonged illness and was upset over it.

"Local officials spoke to his mother and daughters and according to them, he did not commit suicide because he had taken a loan. The farmer was suffering from some health-related problem from the past one year," Dhamtari Collector CR Prasanna told PTI.

Yesterday, Sahu had told his mother that he was having severe body pain but never mentioned about his loan to his family, he claimed.
"However, he had availed some loan from a nationalised bank," Prasanna said adding the amount of loan was not known.
On June 22, a tribal farmer, Manthir Singh Dhruv (55), allegedly committed suicide at Mokha village in Mahasamund district where another farmer, Hiradhar Nishad, ended his life on June 24 at Jamgaon village.