Periyapatna: A 42-year-old farmer, unable to repay debts he had borrowed from the bank and private financiers, committed suicide by consuming pesticides at his house yesterday.
The deceased farmer has been identified as Somashekar, son of Ningegowda and a resident of Senabinakuppe village in the taluk. Somashekar was working as a waterman at Komalapura Gram Panchayat, it is learnt.






