"farmer-suicide"

B Prabhakar had complained that some residents of Poddutur village damaged his three-acre farmland by digging up the soil using earthmovers

According to his wife Bhagya, the Shivaramulu went out to irrigate his field on Thursday evening. When he failed to return home, they family went in search of him, only to find him hanging to the tractor's silencer.

Even after his suicide, his widow had attempted to save the crop by spending Rs 25,000 as the pump set burned out due to an erratic power supply.

Police rushed to the spot and shifted the bodies to Mancherial area hospital for autopsy.