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Abject poverty drives Dalit to end life 20 Feb 2009, 0433 hrs IST, TNN KANPUR: Unable to bear the expenses of his daughter's eye treatment, a 35-year-old Dalit, Saligram, allegedly committed suicide in the Madanpur village, under Bidhnoo police station, here on late Wednesday night. According to reports, Saligram's daughter Komal, one of his three children, was bed-ridden with some eye ailment. The police said, around 6 am on Thursday, villagers discovered his body hanging from a `neem' tree in the fields of one Ram Master of the same village. Although no suicide note was found, villagers claimed he had been depressed for sometime due to acute financial crunch that was unabling him to get his daughter treated. Finding it difficult to make ends meet, they even used to burn tyres to prepare `chapattis', the villagers claimed. His widow Pushpa informed the police: "A local eye specialist had examined Komal's eyes and had demanded a sum of Rs 25,000 for treatment. Only a couple of days ago, he had returned home with poison and had asked me to consume it and serve to children as well, as he was not able to look after his children properly." When Pushpa scolded him, he left home on Wednesday night and on Thursday morning, his body was found. The police have sent the body for autopsy.
