A 47-year-old farmer, who was apparently under depression due to drought and unavailability of water and fodder for his cattle, allegedly committed suicide in Maharashtra's Satara district, police said on Thursday.
Sampat Kokre hanged himself on Wednesday from the ceiling of a room at his house in Man tehsil, located around 250 km from here, an official at Dahiwadi police station said.
He took the extreme step when his wife and son had gone out of the house for some work, he said.
On being informed, the police rushed to the spot and sent the body for postmortem, the official said.
Talking to PTI, the farmer's nephew, Uttam Kokre, said, "My uncle was under depression as he did not have any work due to drought and unavailability of water. He had some land and a few cattle, but was unable to feed them well."
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