The agitation for Maratha reservation boiled over on October 26 after a 25-year-old youth allegedly took his own life in Maharashtra’s Hingoli district while quota activists vandalised vehicles belonging to a Mumbai-based lawyer who had been opposing Maratha reservation.
The youth, identified as one Krishna Kalyankar, was found in a farm in Hingoli’s Kalamnuri tehsil, said the police.
The authorities said they had retrieved a note left behind by Mr. Kalyankar in which the deceased said he was taking the extreme step so that Marathas were quickly granted reservation in jobs and education. A team of the Hingoli police reached the spot and sent the deceased person’s body to a government hospital for post-mortem examination.
