02 November,2016 12:46 PM IST | | PTI
An ex-serviceman allegedly committed suicide over the issue of One Rank One Pension scheme (OROP) in Delhi, police said today
New Delhi: An ex-serviceman allegedly committed suicide over the issue of One Rank One Pension scheme (OROP) here, police said today.
The 70-year-old ex-serviceman Ram Kishan Grewal committed suicide by consuming poison at a park in New Delhi area yesterday evening.
Police said he along with some other ex-servicemen was in the process of submitting a memorandum to the Defence Ministry over the issue of OROP.
According to his friends, Grewal had been upset over the issue for sometime. Ex-servicemen have been protesting over the OROP scheme introduced by the government.
