In a tragic incident, a lady engineer was discovered lifeless at her residential condo in Assam on Tuesday afternoon.
The lady, recognized as 30-year-old Jyotisha Das, was an assistant engineer on the Public Works Division (PWD) of Assam.
She initially hailed from Guwahati and was posted in Bongaigaon.
In accordance with police, she has left behind a handwritten observe alleging harassment by senior officers to approve fraudulent payments for incomplete building work.
She has allegedly named two senior Assam authorities officers within the observe.
The police have arrested the 2 officers in a case of abetment of suicide.
“We have now arrested the 2 individuals named within the suicide observe. One is an govt engineer of the PWD and the opposite a sub-divisional officer,” Bongaigaon SSP Mohan Lal Meena informed PTI.
Following the tragedy, Das’s household has filed an FIR.
Earlier this month, each of them had been transferred out of the district.
Whereas the chief engineer was promoted and posted in Nalbari district, the SDO was moved to Kamrup.
“They’ve been despatched to judicial custody. We have now received permission to interrogate them and perform our investigation,” Meena mentioned.
He additionally mentioned that police are verifying the allegations within the suicide observe discovered beside the physique of the girl.
“She mentioned within the observe that the 2 arrested officers put immense strain on her relating to the development of a mini stadium in Bongaigaon. She additionally alleged that that they had pressured her to move inflated payments submitted by a contractor,” one other official informed PTI.
In her observe, Das wrote that she had been beneath extreme psychological stress because of repeated strain from her superiors. She additionally claimed there was nobody to information her within the workplace and expressed emotions of exhaustion and helplessness, reported NDTV.
In the meantime, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has ordered a probe into the matter.
