A vegetable vendor allegedly committed suicide after receiving an electricity bill of Rs 8.64 lakh for the month of March, which the power distribution firm later said was an erroneous one caused due to a missing decimal point.
Jagannath Nehaji Shelke (36) allegedly hung himself in the early hours of Thursday as he was distressed over the bill and several visits to the local office of the state-run Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company (MSEDCL) were in vain, his kin said.
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