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Lawyer kills himself at Tikri border during farmers protest, leaves suicide note describing PM Modi as Dictator

The deceased lawyer, identified as Amarjit Singh from Jalalabad in Punjab's Fazilka district, was taken to a hospital in Rohtak where doctors declared him dead on arrival. (Photo: Twitter/@pankhuripathak)

The deceased lawyer, identified as Amarjit Singh from Jalalabad in Punjab’s Fazilka district, was taken to a hospital in Rohtak where doctors declared him dead on arrival. (Photo: Twitter/@pankhuripathak)

Amid farmer protests at Tikri border near Delhi, a senior lawyer allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison at the protest site on Sunday morning. The police have reportedly recovered a suicide note from the lawyers pocket describing Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a ?dictator. 


The lawyer, identified as Amarjit Singh, was a part of a group consisting of other lawyers from Punjabs Jalalabad in Fazilka district. The group had joined protesting farmers against the farm laws passed by the Modi government. 

A member of the Bar Association from Jalalabad informed that Singh reportedly consumed poison near Bibi Gulab Kaur stage at the border. He was immediately taken to Rohtak’s Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, where he breathed his last. 

We have informed the relatives of the deceased. Once they reach here, their statements will be recorded and further proceedings will be conducted, PTI quoted a police officer from Haryana’s Jhajjar district as saying.

A suicide note addressed to Modi, The Dictator? was recovered from the lawyers pocket. Singh had mentioned in the note that he sacrificing himself in support of the protests. The letter was typewritten and dated December 18, with the advocates signature. 

The letter read: The General Public of India has given you absolute majority, power and faith for saving and prospering their life. But with great sorrow and pains, I have to write that you have become the Prime Minister of special groups like Ambani and Adani etc.

The letter further read: The common people like farmers and labourers are feeling defrauded by your three agriculture black bills and the worst life is inevitable. The public is on tracks (sic) and roads not for votes but for the livelihood of their families and generations. In order to feed some capitalists you have destroyed the common people and agriculture, which is the backbone of India.

Kindly do not snatch the bread and butter (Roti) of farmers, labourers and common people for a few capitalists and do not compel them to eat sulphos (read: celphos, a fumigant). Socially you have betrayed the public and politically you have betrayed your associate parties like SAD.

Listen, the voice of the people is the voice of God. It is said that you wish for sacrifices like Godhra and I also offer my sacrifice in support of this worldwide agitation for the shaking of your deaf and dumb conscience.

In this month, this is the third alleged suicide, which is linked to the farmer protests. Earlier a Sikh preacher, Sant Ram Singh, died after he allegedly shot himself near the Singhu border protest site. The preacher claimed that he was ?unable to bear the pain of the farmers. Apart from him, a 22-year-old farmer also allegedly died by suicide in Punjabs Bathinda after his return from the protest site near the Delhi border. 

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COVID-19

Thane Municipal Corporation adds 25 beds as COVID cases rise

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Radhika Dhawad | Thane

Thane Municipal Corporation added 25 additional beds separately in the wake of rapidly rising COVID-19 cases.

Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) added 25 additional beds in Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital Kalwa apart from arranging a special ward  dedicated to COVID-19 patients. The total number of active patients in the city stood at 252 while five succumbed to the virus.  Meanwhile, TMC Commissioner Abhijit Bangar said a ‘death audit’ of patients who died of COVID would be conducted. The TMC has ensured it has additional stock of oxygen concentrators, testing kits, medicines, to name a few. Bangar told HT, “Due to the increasing number of Covid patients, it is necessary for everyone to be alert.”

He added, The number of Covid tests should be increased to stay one step ahead of the disease. As a result, the number of patients is likely to increase due to increased testing. However, as per the ‘test, isolate, treat’ protocol for Covid, it becomes necessary to isolate and treat more and more patients. The testing centres will not remain closed even for a single day. At the same time, more arrangements for testing will be made immediately in public places, markets, railway stations, malls.” 

India recorded 3,095 new COVID cases and five deaths in last 24 hours.

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Politics

After Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification, his namesake who contested from Wayanad disqualified

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Radhika Dhawad | Wayanad
An independent candidate named Rahul Gandhi has been disqualified from contesting polls for failing to lodge account of election expenses.

Rahul Gandhi

An independent candidate for Lok Sabha elections named Rahul Gandhi was disqualified from contesting polls for failing to lodge account of election expenses. Gandhi, who’s name figures as ‘Rahul Gandhi K E S/o Valsamma’ in an Election Commission list of persons, had contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as an Independent and had received 2196 votes from the Wayanad seat in Kerala – a constituency from where ex-Congress MP Rahul Rajiv Gandhi had won with over seven lakh votes.

However, since it is mandatory for all contestants to submit their account of election expenses among other mandatory requirements under EC rules and the Representation of the People Act.

Rahul Gandhi K E S/o Valsamma stood disqualified to contest polls from September 13, 2021 till September 13, 2024. According to Section 10A, the Election Commission can disqualify a contestant for a period of three years from the date of the order if he/she has failed to lodge an account of election expenses within the time and in the manner required by law and has no good reason or justification for the failure.

Also read: ‘CBI under UPA govt. pressurised me to frame Modi,’ recalls Amit Shah

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Nagpur records 22 COVID cases in 24 hours

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Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

A total of 22 patients tested positive for COVID-19 in Nagpur in past 24 hours on Thursday. Almost 242 people were tested in the city.

A total of 22 patients tested positive for COVID-19 in Nagpur in past 24 hours on Thursday. Almost 242 people were tested in the city, out of which 15 belonged to urban area while and 6 were from the rural areas, and one from outside Nagpur district. 

At present, there are 72 active patients in the city. Three new cases of the new XBB.1.16 variant of COVID-19 were detected that took the total tally to five in the district.  

India recorded 3,095 new COVID cases and five deaths in last 24 hours.

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