A lawyer from Punjab , who took part in the protests against the farm laws at Delhi’s Tikri border, was found dead after he consumed pestic...
A lawyer from Punjab, who took part in the protests against the farm laws at Delhi’s Tikri border, was found dead after he consumed pesticide on Sunday morning, reported NDTV. Two letters were found on him, one of them was addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and the other to the protestors.
The lawyer, identified as Amarjit Singh Rai who was a resident of Jalalabad in Fazilka district, was protesting along with farmer group Bharatiya Kisan Union Ugrahan. Rai took the poison around 200 metres from the stage at the protest site, which the farmers named Gadri Gulab Kaur Nagar.
In the purported suicide note, 63-year-old Singh said he was taking his life to support the farmers protests against the Centre’s new farm laws so that the government is forced to listen to people. It said that people like the farmers and labourers were feeling conned by the three “black laws”, according to the news channel. The police is still verifying the authenticity of the suicide note, dated December 18.
“We have informed the relatives of the deceased and once they reach here, their statements will be recorded and further proceedings will be conducted,” an unidentified police officer from Haryana’s Jhajjar district told PTI. Amarjit Singh Rai’s daughter, however, said...
