A sugarcane farmer of Pakaria village, in Lakhimpur Kheri district has allegedly committed suicide, officials said on Thursday.
Chhotey Lal (50) hanged himself in the village, which comes under Neemgaon police station’s area, on Tuesday night, they said.
While his brother Chiraunji stated family dispute as the cause behind Lal’s suicide, Opposition parties alleged that he took the extreme step due to the ongoing sugarcane crisis.
Additional District Magistrate Vidya Shankar Singh — who carried out the preliminary probe into the farmer’s death — said the deceased had no pending loans to any bank.
“No cane dues of the deceased farmer were pending nor did he have any loan of any bank or society,” he said.
District Magistrate Gaurav Dayal also said as per records the farmer owed no loan or cane dues to any bank.
District cane officer J.C. Yadav said, “The price of the cane supplied by the deceased farmer had been transferred to his account in January 2012 and in April 2013.”
However, Opposition parties attributed the farmer’s death to the ongoing sugarcane crisis and alleged that UP government’s cane policy is responsible for farmers’ deaths in the State.
On November 28, fed up of heavy debts and prolonged illness, a sugarcane farmer Satyapal Singh (40) had hanged himself to death in Bastauli village.
