Sexually harassed by colleagues, woman railway clerk jumps to death

LUCKNOW: A woman railway employee allegedly committed suicide by jumping from a four-storey building in a railway colony in the city on Sunday morning.
Police claimed the deceased was sexually harassed by her seniors and colleagues and that drove her to end life. The woman was a clerk in the railways in Lucknow. She was a spinster and lived alone in her government accommodation in the railway colony.

She hailed from Nalanda in Bihar. Police recovered a suicide note from her room in which she accused two seniors and four colleagues of sexually harassing her in office. The note has been sent to Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) to examine if it was the deceased's handwriting.

Her neighbour Sumit Kumar saw her lying in a pool of blood around 6am on Sunday and informed UP 100.

A police team reached the spot and took the woman to Kin g George's Medical University's Trauma Centre, where the doctors declared her brought dead. She had suffered fractures in the skull and the nature of injuries suggested that she fell from the building, said police.

"The suicide note was addressed to station house officer of Alambagh police station and was dated March 28, 2019," said Circle offficer, (Alambagh), Sanjeev Sinha. A blank diary was also recovered from her room, CO added. "In the suicide note, she alleged that during working hours she was made to run outside for the work of her seniors. Colleagues used to sing vulgar songs aimed at her. Once a colleague misbehaved with her. When she reported the matter to a senior, the latter rebuked her instead," said Sinha.

The CO said that they will grill the railway officers after an FIR is lodged and the handwriting of the deceased is verified.

Police have informed the deceased's parents, who live in Nalanda, about her death.