The family of a debt-ridden farmer, who allegedly committed suicide here yesterday, refused to claim the body today even as the state government offered to pay Rs 8 lakh as compensation.
Shankar Chayare (50), who hailed from Rajurwadi village of Yavatmal district of Maharashtra, allegedly killed himself by consuming a poisonous chemical, apparently upset due to crop-loss, according to the police.
The situation in Rajurwadi village was said to be tense in view of the incident.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is likely to visit Yavatmal tomorrow.
The police said Chayare's daughter has given them a purported suicide note of the deceased in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been held responsible for the farmer's extreme step.
Jayashree, the eldest daughter of the deceased, has filed a complaint against Modi in the Ghatanji Police Station.
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The note, which the police insists was not recovered from the scene of the death, has been sent to handwriting experts for ascertaining its authenticity.
"The purported suicide note was submitted by Chayare's daughter Jayashree to Ghatanji police last night after it was circulated on social media," Ganesh Bhavsar, in-charge of the Ghatanji police station, told PTI.
"In the two-page note, PM Modi's name was written on the second page. Some sentences in the note have been struck out and some letters in the note are not written in a uniform style. Therefore, we have sent this note to the forensic sciences department to the handwriting experts," Bhavsar said.
"We have collected various documents from the deceased farmer's residence, in which his handwriting is available. That handwriting will be matched with the one in the suicide note," he added.
Yavatmal Superintendent of Police M Rajkumar said, "The police has sent the purported suicide note to handwriting experts to verify its authenticity."
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