Date:07/01/2009 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/01/07/stories/2009010753610700.htm

Karnataka - Gulbarga

Debt-ridden farmer commits suicide

Special Correspondent

GULBARGA: A 45-year-old debt-ridden farmer Apparao Patil committed suicide by consuming poison at Ainapur village in Chincholi taluk in Gulbarga district on Monday night.

He had taken loans from banks and moneylenders.

According to reports, the farmer who had consumed poison died while being taken to the Government Hospital at Chincholi town.

The Chincholi police have registered a case and the Tahsildar of Chincholi taluk, Baby John, visited the village and conducted panchanama.

Apparao Patil is reported to have taken a loan of Rs. 28,000 from Punjab National Bank branch at Kumbal village and Rs. 32,000 from the Farmers’ Cooperative Society at Ainapur. He had also availed of a loan of Rs. 1.3 lakh from private moneylenders. He could not repay his loans after he lost his red gram crop owing to the failure of rains this year.

He is survived by his wife and four children.