ABOHAR: Failing to get a loan of Rs 50 crore from a bank, an indebted farmer committed suicide by consuming poison in the premises of the bank, here on Monday.

Vinod Kumar Yadav, a resident of Ramsara village in Abohar sub-division of Fazilka district, in his three-page suicide note, written in Punjabi on an affidavit, held bank manager, Ravinder Pal Singh Shekhon and field officer Neeraj Kumar Aneja of Punjab Agriculture Development Bank , responsible for his death. He accused them of not sanctioning him a loan of Rs 50 crore as promised to him earlier.

The suicide note claims that the bank officials had assured him an agriculture loan of Rs 50 crore to purchase agriculture land. The victim was asked to deposit a certain percentage of the loan amount, which he had arranged by selling his agriculture land and taking loan from private lenders.

The bank officials, according to the suicide note had assured him a loan of Rs 30 crore from NABARD, Chandigarh and Rs 20 crore from the local branch of the bank. Yadav also alleged that the bank officials had also taken some amount as their commission from him. But later the officials started dilly-dallying thus forcing him to take the extreme step, Yadav alleged in his note.

The note has the details of the amount Yadav took as loan from his relatives and friends. His brother Vijay Pal Yadav claimed that apart from taking loan from his friends and relatives, the victim had recently sold his agriculture land for Rs 75 Lakh and deposited the amount in the bank to avail the loan.

A case under section 306 IPC has been registered against Ravinder Pal Singh Shekhon and Neeraj Kumar Juneja. The officials refuted the allegation of having taken any bribe money from the victim.