‘I worked with honesty and dedication for 14 years, but an inquiry was conducted against me on a caste basis,’ the suicide note reads
Team Clarion
NEW DELHI – Rahul, a suspended Dalit sub-postmaster in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr, in his suicide note, has accused his senior officials of harassment on caste lines and blamed them for his death.
The victim who died by suicide on Sunday was suspended on charges of embezzlement and grilled by the CBI for six hours a day before his death.
In a letter addressed to his family, Rahul accused an officer at his workplace of victimising him and subjecting him to caste-based abuse. “I worked with honesty and dedication for 14 years, but an inquiry was conducted against me on a caste basis. The officers of the divisional office are responsible for my death,” media reports cited him as saying in the suicide note.
The case is of the railway line located in Girdhari Nagar of City Kotwali. Rahul was suspended for one month on charges of embezzlement of Rs 2.5 crore. In his letter, Rahul mentioned that he came to know about the relationship between his co-worker and a woman. The officials were angry with him about this, Rahul wrote in his letter.
“He used casteist words and abused me. He has written – I was suspended by the divisional office team on 26 November. Till 23 November, out of 5,599 registries, 3,600 registries were pending, whereas 1,766 registries had been dispatched. Postage stamps were put on all the envelopes by others, but the blame was put on me. Earlier, an investigation was done in the Dibai fake postage stamp case, but no FIR was lodged against anyone, nor was anyone suspended. Whereas in my case, an immediate CBI inquiry was conducted. I was deliberately targeted.” he wrote in the letter.
The CBI is investigating fraud involving fake stamps worth Rs 2.5 crore, used in registered, speed post, and parcel mail bookings. As part of the investigation, Rahul, a clerk, and a Class IV employee were suspended.
