Probe begins into farmer suicide

Jajpur: The Jajpur district administration on Thursday started a probe into the alleged suicide by a farmer earlier this month.

50-year-old Panchanan Dalei of Daanarkul village of Jajpur block in the district had allegedly consumed poison on March 23 allegedly over crop loss. He was found by his family members in a critical condition and admitted to the District Headquarters Hospital.

He was shifted to the SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack after his condition deteriorated on March 24. He died there on March 28 night.

Angry locals had refused to cremate Dalei’s body and blockaded the Bari-Kuakhia road by keeping it there on Wednesday afternoon demanding compensation to the family and a job to the farmer’s widow.