'Send your wife for a night if you want transfer': UP power dept worker kills self after boss makes shocking demand
Zee News
According to the FIR filed with the police, Junior Engineer had also asked the lineman to pay him Rs 1 lakh for a transfer he was seeking.
Lakhimpur Kheri: A UP power corporation worker died after setting himself on fire outside the house of an engineer who had allegedly asked him to "send his wife for a night", police said on Monday.
According to the FIR filed with the police, Junior Engineer Nagendra Sharma had also asked lineman Gokul (42) to pay him Rs 1 lakh for a transfer he was seeking.
The JE and another lineman, Jagatpal, have been suspended.
Before taking the step on Saturday night at Hydle Colony in Pallia, Gokul made a video levelling the allegations.
According to the FIR lodged by his wife Rajkumari, the JE demanded Rs 1 lakh and asked her husband to send her to him for a night for a transfer to Pallia.
