Lawyer Amarjit Singh was pronounced dead by doctors at a Rohtak hospital.
New Delhi:
A Punjab lawyer allegedly committed suicide on Sunday a few kilometers from the site of a farmers’ protest on the outskirts of Delhi.
Amarjit Singh from Jalalabad in the Fazilka district of Punjab was found on the Tikri border after consuming poison and was taken to a hospital in Rohtak where doctors pronounced him dead upon arrival, police said.
In an alleged suicide note, Amarjit Singh said he was “sacrificing his life” in support of the farmers’ agitation against the new agricultural laws of the center so that the government would be forced to listen to the voice of the people.
He wrote that ordinary people like farmers and workers feel “disappointed” by the three “black” farm laws and called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “listen to the voice of the people.”
Police said they are verifying the authenticity of the suicide note, dated December 18.
“We have informed the relatives of the deceased and once they arrive here, their statements will be recorded and further procedures will be carried out,” a police officer from the Jhajjar district of Haryana told the PTI news agency, adding that they were informed. about suicide hospital authorities.
Previously, at least two suicides have been linked to the farmers’ uproar, at various border points in Delhi for more than a month.
A 65-year-old Sikh preacher, Sant Ram Singh, allegedly committed suicide near the Singhu border protest site earlier this month, claiming he was “unable to bear the pain of the farmers”.
A few days later, a 22-year-old farmer died by suicide in Bathinda, Punjab, after returning from a protest site near the Delhi border.
Thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and some other states have been protesting at various border points in Delhi against the three agricultural laws passed in September.
Billed as long-awaited reforms in the agricultural sector, the central government has said it will cut out middlemen and allow farmers more options to sell their products.
However, protesting farmers fear that the new laws will do away with the minimum support price system and do away with the mandi system, leaving them at the mercy of large corporations.
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