Farmer’s suicide: Accused at large, protest at Rampura Phul

Amritsar | Thursday | 21st June, 2018

Summary:

Gursewak Singh had committed suicide by hanging himself from a cloth tied to a tree on his farmland. BATHINDA: Hundreds of farmers protested outside Rampura Phul city police station to demand the arrest of a man accused of abetting the suicide of a farmer in Lehra Dhurkot village near here on June 3.The farmers sat at the two gates of the police station and did not allow anyone to enter or exit the station. “Two people have already been arrested and raids are being conducted to arrest him. We are on the job,” he said. “My husband could not tolerate it and committed suicide,” she said.The Bathinda president of BKU Ekta Ugrahan, Shingara Singh Mann, said Sharma was considered close to Congress leaders, so police were not arresting him and giving him enough time to get anticipatory bail.When contacted, Bathinda SSP Naveen Singla said there was no laxity..