New Delhi: An ex-serviceman allegedly committed suicide over the issue of One Rank One Pension scheme (OROP) in New Delhi, police said on Wednesday.
The 70-year-old ex-serviceman Ram Kishan Grewal committed suicide by consuming poison at a park in New Delhi area Tuesday 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.