Debt-ridden farmer ends life

DAVANAGERE: Fearing mounting debts, a 65-year-old farmer from Kambada Devatti village in Holalkere taluk of Chitradurga district has committed suicide by consuming poison.
The deceased is Dasappa K. He had reportedly borrowed a loan of Rs 2.70 lakh from SBI (Holalkere branch) and Rs 1.10 lakh from Pragathi Grameena Bank (Holalkere) and had purchased a tractor for Rs 4.50 lakh through the loan taken from Mahindra Finance (Chitradurga).
But due to the lack of rain in the last two years, his crops failed, pushing him to depression over the debts.Depressed, he consumed poison late on Saturday night at his house. Noticing him wreathing in pain, his family members rushed him to Holalkere taluk government hospital, where he succumbed in the early hours of Sunday. Holalkere police are investigating the case.