UP clerk ends life, offers body parts to bosses

Unable to take any more “exploitations” and “harassments” from his superiors, a revenue clerk in Uttar Pradesh committed suicide on Saturday by jumping before a running train and offered his body parts to his bosses.


Reports said Ashok Kumar Chaubey, posted in the Kanahar area in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonebhadra district (about 450 km from here), jumped before a speeding train near Sonebhadra railway station.


In his suicide note, Chaubey said he took the extreme step as he was unable to bear the exploitations and harassments of his superiors.


He was so frustrated that he even offered his body parts to the officials, the Sub Divisional Magistrate and the Tehsildar, who he claimed were his chief tormentors.
“I offer the upper part of my body to the SDM and the lower part to the Tehsildar,” Chaubey's suicide note said.


In an irony of sorts, the speeding train had torn Chaubey's body into several pieces and left a scattered mess around the railway track.


“I am being harassed by the two senior officials,” Chaubey had said in his note, mentioning that the officers unfairly transferred him on numerous occasions in the past and demanded money from him.

Police officials revealed that the revenue clerk was in “deep depression” which could be the reason for his suicide.


“The family members of Chaubey said that he had been very upset and depressed for the past several days,” said a police official in Sonebhadra.


The police said the body had been sent for post-mortem and said the matter has been investigated from all angles. In a similar incident in Mathura a few months ago, a central government official ended his life by jumping before a running train with his wife after alleging that he was hounded by his superiors and was implicated in a corruption case.