In less than a fortnight, another debt-ridden farmer has committed suicide by consuming poison in Punjab, his family said on Thursday. Farmer Harmeet Singh of Mansuran village near here took the extreme step on Wednesday evening after he failed to return the loan taken from an arhtiya or private financier, the family said. The incident came to light on Thursday when the family reported it to police. “My father was under depression after the arhtiya confiscated the land documents and was planning to sell it further,” the farmer`s son Ishpreet told reporters.
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