Dharma Patil, an 84-year-old farmer, who had allegedly consumed poison outside the Maharashtra secretariat, passed away at the JJ hospital late on Sunday night. According to the police, the farmer consumed a poisonous chemical at the Mantralaya on January 22 to protest against the low returns offered by the state government for acquiring his land for a solar power plant. The farmer died hailed from North Maharashtra. After the suicide attempt, Patil was taken to a government hospital in south Mumbai.