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Chamarajanagar: A waterman ended his life in front of the gram panchayat office at Honganur in Chamarajanagar district on Friday.
In a death note, he has alleged mental harassment by panchayat development officer (PDO) Rame Gowda and the husband of the gram panchayat president Mohan Kumar.
The waterman, Chikoosa Nayaka, who hanged himself, in the death note said, "I have been working as the waterman at the Honganuru Gram Panchayat since 2016. I had told the PDO and the gram panchayat president that I would be resigning due to ill health and had asked them to settle my salary pending for 27 months. Neither of them responded to this."
He said he had even appealed to the zilla panchayat chief executive officer about the pending salary, but in vain. "If I asked for leave, they used to mentally harass me, asking me to assign someone else to the work before going on leave. They insisted that I be in the office from 8 am to 6 pm. I am ending my life by suicide due to the harassment of the PDO and Mohan Kumar," he said in the note and sought legal action against the two people.
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