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Engineer leaps to death from 14th floor office
Calcutta News.Net
Tuesday 7th August, 2007 (IANS)
A chief engineer of the Uttar Pradesh Power Generation Corporation killed himself Tuesday by jumping out his 14th floor office, the fifth such suicide from a government-owned building within a fortnight.
B.K. Agarwal had arrived as usual at his 14th floor office in the multi-storeyed Shakti Bhawan around 11 a.m. After exchanging pleasantries with his staff, he kept his briefcase and keys on the table, opened the window and took the fatal leap.
Agarwal, who was in his 50s, had taken the extreme step on account of 'acute depression' due to office pressures, said his family members.
'He had been talking about undue harassment at the hands of his superiors for some time,' a family member told IANS.
UP Power Engineers Association spokesperson R.K. Sharma also confirmed that Agarwal had been in a state of depression for the past three months.
'He died an instantaneous death', said Lucknow senior superintendent of police B.P. Jogdand.  Email this story to a friend
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