'Tolerating injustice is sin': Sikh priest dies by suicide, leaves note on farmers' protest

Baba Ram Singh was at the Delhi-Sonipat border at Kundli on Tuesday evening, which is just 2 km away from the Singhu border, the epicentre of the farmers' protest.

According to reports, the priest left a suicide note where he said he was sacrificing his life "to express anger and pain against the government's injustice".

"I feel the pain of farmers fighting to ensure their rights... I share their pain because the government is not doing justice to them.  To inflict injustice is a sin, but it is also a sin to tolerate injustice. To support farmers, some have returned their awards to the government.  I have decided to sacrifice myself," the note he left read, as per media reports.

He was rushed to a hospital in Panipat, where he was declared brought dead.

His body is now being shifted to Karnal, where he lived, said reports.

Hundreds of farmers, mostly from Punjab, are camping at Delhi's Singhu, Tikri, Ghazipur and Chilla (Delhi-Noida) border points since the end of November over their demands that the three contentious farm laws of the Centre be repealed.

The protest by farmers now continues for 21 days.

More than 20 of the protesters have died so far, the farmers' representatives said on Tuesday.

A farmer leader from Maharashtra, Rishipal, told media that one farmer has died every day on an average since the protest started.