Muzaffarnagar: A debt-ridden farmer allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison in a village in Shamli district, police said Monday.
Rajender, 50, had taken a loan from a cooperative society and was finding it difficult to repay it, according to village head Bijender Kumar.
Rajender consumed poison yesterday and was rushed to a hospital where he was declared dead. The body has been sent for postmortem, police added.
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