Haryana: Rohtak Man Ends Life, Police Deny Link To Agnipath Scheme

A man from Haryana was found dead in his house, no suicide note was found on the spot but during the initial investigation, it was found that he used to remain disturbed.

New Delhi: A 23-year-old youth committed suicide in a room in his paying guest accommodation in Haryana’s Rohtak on Thursday, a police official said. The youth was living in a paying guest accommodation in Rohtak’s Dev Colony, Inspector Pramod Gautam, SHO, PGIMS, said over the phone.

He said no suicide note was found and the youth was identified as Sachin.

The SHO said it has come to the fore in preliminary investigation that he used to remain mentally disturbed.

When asked that some reports said he was aspiring to join the Army and had some apprehensions about the Centre’s “Agnipath” scheme for recruitment to the armed forces, the police official said, “Nothing of that sort has come to the fore during investigation so far.” The SHO said the youth’s family too has not said anything like that. Sachin belonged to Jind district, he said.

Agnipath Scheme protests

Protests broke out in several states after the Centre unveiled the Agnipath Scheme for recruiting soldiers across all three services. Thousands of Army exam candidates who took part in the protest have expressed their anger and demanded the cancellation of the Agnipath scheme. They want the army exam to be conducted as usual.

The protests ignited on Wednesday after the government announced the short-term contractual recruitment scheme for defense services. However, the situation did not get better even after the government extended the age limit from 21 to 23 years on Thursday evening.

(With PTI inputs)