BAREILLY: A primary schoolteacher, in his late 40s, in Fatehganj (west) allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison after the people he had borrowed money with reportedly pressured him to pay more.
Police said before ending his life, victim Chandrapal Gangwar of Sanjarpur had shot a video in a field and also left behind a suicide note in which he named three Bareilly residents of “forcing him to pay more money, even though he had paid more than the amount he had borrowed from them”.
Police said the man was rushed to the district hospital, where he succumbed during the treatment on June 30.
The victim’s family told police that Chandrapal had gone missing on June 26, and they had been searching for him since then and found him lying unconscious in a field in a village in Mirganj.
They rushed Chandrapal to the district hospital where he succumbed after being treated for four days, said the family.
Police, meanwhile, said that Chandrapal had shot the video after consuming poison. In the video, the victim alleged that he was taking the extreme step after the accused — Gudiya, a cosmetic shop owner in Basant Vihar area, Pappu, alias, Santosh, a gambler, and Premnagar-based garment businessman Kapil Chabra — repetedly forced him to pay more money than he had borrowed, said police.
The victim accused them of threatening him to kill his wife while demanding more and more money, said police.
In the video, Chandrapal urged police to take strict action against the accused, saying he had “cleared all the dues, yet they were threatening me. They are responsible for my death”.
Mirganj police station SHO Daya Shankar told TOI, “An FIR has been registered under relevant IPC sections. We have arrested one Santosh, while others will also be arrested soon. Besides, an investigation is going on.”
