Date:24/02/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/02/24/stories/2006022404110400.htm

Andhra Pradesh - Anantapur

Woman ryot ends life over debt insult?

Staff Reporter

ANANTAPUR: A woman farmer Eeswaramma (45) committed suicide by consuming a pesticide at Alamur, near here, on Thursday allegedly due to the insult heaped on her family by a private moneylender about the family's debt to him.

The lender allegedly said that nobody should purchase land from the family as their entire land was not sufficient to meet the debt taken from him. Unable to stand the insult, the woman consumed a pesticide on Wednesday night and was found dead.

The children said that their father, too, ended his life in a similar fashion about a year ago after the moneylender humiliated him. The family had a debt of about Rs. 5 lakhs and have five acres of land.