Farmers’ suicide in Rajshahi: Police arrest accused Sakhawat

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Farmers’ suicide in Rajshahi: Police arrest accused Sakhawat

Shawdesh desk:

Police have arrested a man in a case filed over the deaths of two farmers, who allegedly died by suicide after deep tube-well operator refused to supply water to their lands for irrigation water, in Godagari upazila of Rajshahi.

The arrestee is identified as Shakhawat Hossain, the deep tube-well operator of the Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA).

He was arrested from Chabbishnagar area of the upazila early hours of Sunday.

On March 24, Rabi Marandi, 32, a Santal community member of Nimghatu village in Godagari upazila, and his cousin Abhinath, 30, consumed poison in front of Shakhawat Hossain.

They took the decision out of anger “as Shakhawat was not giving them a serial number for a long time to get irrigation water supplied to their fields in Iswarpur”, according to their family.

Abhinath died around 9pm after reaching home on March 24, while Rabi died two days later at Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH).

Later, Abhinath’s wife filed a case with Godagari Police Station accusing Sakhawat, president of Ward Krishak League of Deopara Union of the upazila.