Debt-ridden farmer commits suicide in Kundapur

February 14, 2016

Udupi, Feb 14: Unable to bear the burden of debt after the price of rubber crashed in the markets, a rubber-grower allegedly ended his life at a remote village in Kundapur taluk of Udupi district.

The deceased has been identified as CC Joseph (58), a resident of at Jadkal village near Kollur. He resorted to the extreme step at his house Friday night and breathed his lost while being taken to Kundapur Government Hospital. A case had been registered in Kollur police station and investigations were on, the police said.

Police sources said that Joseph was cultivating rubber in about 2.5 acres of land at Jadkal. He had taken loans to the tune of about Rs. 2.5 lakh, including Rs. 78,000 from Kollur Cooperative Society, for cultivating rubber crop.

He was also renovating his house. But, the crash in rubber prices, in addition to the burden of debt, distressed him and prompted him to take the extreme step. Joseph is survived by wife, a son and two daughters. The post-mortem was done at the Government Hospital in Kundapur.

Vinay Kumar Sorake, Urban Development Minister, M. Veerappa Moily, former Chief Minister, consoled the family members at Kundapur.

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