Bhubaneswar: Ajit Sahani, a street vendor from Bihar committed suicide at his home in Badagada area of the city by hanging himself. Sahani was running a bed-sheet shop at Market Building here from the past 20 years.
“He had taken a loan of Rs 3 lakh for his business. He was under depression after eviction and worried about repayment of the loan,” Sahani’s wife said.
Badagada police have registered a case of unnatural death and investigating the matter. The street vendors were evicted from Market Building area following a protest by local shopkeepers few days back