By Shishir Prashant 
PrashantNews
A farmer in Uttarakhand allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself in a hotel room in the Kathgodam area in Nainital district early Sunday following an alleged Rs 4 crore fraudulent land deal, police said.
Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has ordered a magisterial inquiry into the incident.
Preliminary investigations revealed that Sukhwant Singh (40), a resident of Paiga village in Kashipur area in Udhamsingh Nagar district, had been under mental stress for a long time for allegedly losing Rs 4 crore in the fraudulent land deal.
According to police, Singh was accompanied in the hotel room by his wife Pradeep Kaur (40) and son Gurshej Singh (14). Kaur revealed during interrogation that she suddenly woke up at around 3 a.m. after being hit on the head by her husband. She said she immediately woke her son and ran out of the room to seek help from the hotel reception. As soon as she left the room, Singh locked the door from inside, and then she heard a gunshot.
When police opened the door, Singh was lying in a pool of blood. He was rushed to Dr. Sushila Tiwari Hospital, where he was declared dead.
Nainital Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Manjunath TC stated that a post-mortem examination of the body was conducted by a panel of doctors and the videography was also done. He added that forensic evidence has also been collected from the scene.
Manjunath stated that before the incident, the deceased had posted a video on social media. In the viral video, Singh accused some people of duping him of Rs 4 crore in the fraudulent land deal.
In Dehradun, the Congress party described the farmer’s suicide as a direct result of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government’s “misgovernance and the failure” of the police administration. Senior Congress leader Amarjeet Singh said in a statement, “A farmer was defrauded of crores of rupees in the name of land, but despite complaints, the police took no action. The indifference of the system took the life of a farmer.”