UP Man, Allegedly Asked By Boss To “Send Wife For A Night”, Kills Himself

Lucknow:

An worker of the Uttar Pradesh energy division died by suicide, allegedly after a senior official requested him to “ship his spouse for an evening” if he needed a switch.

Upset and humiliated, 45-year-old Gokul Prasad poured diesel over himself exterior the junior engineer’s workplace in Lakhimpur and set himself on hearth. He was rushed to a hospital the place he died throughout therapy on Sunday.

Junior engineer Nagendra Kumar and a clerk have been suspended and a police case has been registered.

In a video shot after Gokul Prasad had set himself on hearth, he’s seen in immense ache as he narrates what led him to the acute step. He alleges that the junior engineer and his aide had been harassing him and that he had approached the police, however obtained no assist.

In one other video, his spouse alleges that the accused had been torturing Gokul for the previous three years. “He went into despair, began taking remedy, however they didn’t spare him. He was transferred to Aliganj and was going through issue in travelling. So he requested for a switch nearer house. They instructed him, ‘get your spouse to sleep with us and we are going to get you transferred’,” she mentioned.

She added that nobody got here ahead to assist him. “The junior engineer stood there and watched,” she mentioned.

Senior police officer Sanjiv Suman mentioned, “The lineman had alleged that the junior engineer used to demand cash and made vulgar statements when he sought a switch. Now we have registered a case. On the division stage, the junior engineer has been suspended and an inquiry ordered. The case has been registered beneath the abetment to suicide cost.”