Farmer Dies In Jail

Thirty-five-year old Jaipal sits motionless in his house for hours. Neither him nor his brother Udaipal, 47, can make sense of what has unfolded in the last two days. Their father Ranbir Singh died in the jail after heart failure. He was sent there ten days ago and had just started serving his two-year imprisonment for loan default. The farmer wa...

Ten days after he was sent to a jail in Haryana for failing to repay a bank loan, a 65-year-old farmer died in jail on Tuesday. Ranbir Singh died on the same day thousands of farmers protested near Delhi demanding loan waiver, pension and subsidised electricity and fuel.

Thirty-five-year old Jaipal sits motionless in his house for hours. Neither him nor his brother Udaipal, 47, can make sense of what has unfolded in the last two days. Their father Ranbir Singh died in the jail after heart failure. He was sent there ten days ago and had just started serving his two-year imprisonment for loan default. The farmer wa...

Ten days after he was sent to a jail in Haryana for failing to repay a bank loan, a 65-year-old farmer died in jail on Tuesday. Ranbir Singh died on the same day thousands of farmers protested near Delhi demanding loan waiver, pension and subsidised electricity and fuel.