Farmer ends life outside MSEDCL office

Nagpur, Feb 23 (UNI) A farmer committed suicide outside the office of Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company ltd (MSEDCL) in Anjangaon-Surji in Amravati district in Vidarbha today after officials cut the illegal power connection to the pump in his field two days ago.

Amravati district Superintendent of Police (SP) Krishna Prakash told UNI on telephone that Rajaram Mate (60) died in hospital a little while after consuming poison this morning.

A crowd that gathered at the hospital initially refused to allow the body to be taken for a post-mortem examination, but later relented, he said.

Additional force had been deployed in the town, and the situation was 'tense but under control,' Mr Prakash added.

UNI