A 49-year-old farmer from Haryana’s Hisar district on Sunday allegedly hanged himself from a tree, about seven kilometers from the Tikri border protest website, police mentioned.
The farmer, who supported the agitation towards Centre’s new farm legal guidelines, has purportedly left a suicide notice, they mentioned.
“The victim, Rajbir, hailed from a village in Hisar district. He was found hanging from a tree,” Bahadurgarh City police station SHO, Vijay Kumar mentioned over telephone.
His physique was discovered hanging by some farmers who knowledgeable the police.
In the suicide notice purportedly left behind by Rajbir, it’s talked about that the three farm legal guidelines had been chargeable for him to take the intense step. He additionally mentioned that the Centre ought to fulfil his final want by repealing the legislations, police mentioned.
Last month, a farmer from Jind in Haryana, who was additionally supporting the agitation towards the farm legal guidelines, had additionally allegedly hanged himself from a tree, barely two kilometres from the Tikri border protest website.
Earlier, one other farmer from Haryana had allegedly consumed a toxic substance on the Tikri border. He had died throughout therapy at a Delhi hospital later.
In December final 12 months, a lawyer from Punjab had allegedly killed himself by consuming poison a couple of kilometres away from the protest website on the Tikri border.
A Sikh preacher, Sant Ram Singh, had additionally allegedly ended his life close to the Singhu border protest website, claiming that he was “unable to bear the pain of the farmers”.
Thousands of farmers have been protesting since November final 12 months at Delhi borders with Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, demanding a rollback of the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, the Farmers’ (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.
