A "debt-burdened" farmer allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison in Dug town of chief minister Vasundhra Raje's home district Jhalawar on Sunday, day after a 66-year-old farmer took the extreme step in the same district.
Sheikh Hanif (60) consumed poison at his home last evening, SHO Dug police station Lav Kumar said. He was rushed to a local hospital from where doctors referred him to district government hospital in Jhalawar where he died during treatment, he said.
Hanif's family members said he had borrowed loans from a cooperative society and local money lenders and was facing financial crisis in repaying the said amount as the crops had consistently been damaged in natural calamities for the last three years.
The frustration for not being able to repay the amount drove him to commit suicide, they said.
However, Kumar denied the debt as reason behind the extreme step by Hanif.
He had been suffering from diabetes and a kidney problem for over a year and was under depression. His family members have also not mentioned any debt against the deceased in the report to the police, he said.