UP suicide
UP man kills self alleging boss asked him to 'send wife for a night'
Lucknow/IBNS: An employee of the Uttar Pradesh power department committed suicide allegedly after a senior official asked him to "send his wife for a night" if he wanted a transfer, media reports said.
Feeling upset and humiliated, 45-year-old Gokul Prasad poured diesel over himself outside the junior engineer's office in Lakhimpur and set himself ablaze.
He was rushed to a hospital where he died during treatment on Sunday.
Following the incident, 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 fire, he is seen narrating the reason for his extreme state while suffering in immense pain.
He has alleged that the junior engineer and his aide had been harassing him and that he had approached the police, but received no help.
In another video, his wife alleges that the accused had been torturing Gokul for the past three years.
"He went into depression, started taking medication, but they did not spare him. He was transferred to Aliganj and was facing difficulty in travelling. So he asked for a transfer closer home. They told him, 'get your wife to sleep with us and we will get you transferred'," she was heard saying.
She added that no one came forward to help him. "The junior engineer stood there and watched," she said.
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