A farmer committed suicide by hanging in his farm at Basavanahalli in Kadur taluk on Thursday.
The Singatagere police identified the deceased as Niranjana Murthy (44), a native of Channapura in Kadur taluk. He had moved to Basavanahalli after marrying B.S. Kalpana of Basavanahalli. He was looking after land belonging to his wife’s family.
Niranjana had taken a loan of ₹1.5 lakh from a cooperative bank and borrowed money from friends and relatives to the tune of ₹2.75 lakh to drill borewells on the land. He had recently drilled three borewells and all of them ran dry owing to decreased rainfall in the recent months.
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The lack of water affected the yield on his coconut farm. Debt-ridden and with no means of income, Niranjanamurthy hanged himself in the pump house in the farm, his wife Kalpana said.
The Singatagere police have registered an unnatural death report.