Guwahati: A mushroom farmer who made national headlines in 2020 when he sent his employees home to Bihar during a Covid-19-induced lockdown was found hanging in a Delhi temple on Wednesday.
The deceased has been identified as 55-year-old Pappan Singh Gehlot committed suicide by hanging himself from a temple’s ceiling fan in the national capital’s Alipore area.
Police said, he used to often attend the temple and the temple priest discovered him hanging from the ceiling fan.
A suicide note was also recovered in which Pappan mentioned ‘illness’ as the reason behind the extreme step.
Gehlot attracted widespread notice when he organised plane tickets to bring his staff home when hundreds of migrants were left trapped and battled to return home during the COVID-19 lockdown in May 2020.
The deceased, who was known for being upbeat, made yet another arrangement for plane tickets so that he could return to work whenever the situation with Covid-19 improved.
The body was taken by police for a postmortem and they also started an inquiry into the matter.