Haridwar is fast becoming an easy escape destination from life with the rise in number of people arriving here to end their lives. Be it young couples or old people, it is becoming a destination also preferred by those considering the drastic step.
In one such case, a worker from the Uttar Pradesh Income-Tax department, tense due to an ongoing CBI probe in an income tax case, committed suicide in the holy city on Sunday. His family members reached Haridwar and accused two top officials in Income tax department of fabricating a trap for the suicide.
The deceased has been identified as Anand Bajpai, aged 40 years, a resident of Nishadganj in lucknow. He was a contract worker in the income tax department. On July 11, he started from his home for office in lucknow but when he did not return, his family members lodged a report in the police station. On Saturday evening his body was found in a dharmshala room here. He had hanged himself with his scarf in the dharmshala room.
Speaking to The Pioneer, the Haridwar city Kotwali station house officer Chandrabhan Singh said, “A few pages long suicide note has been recovered in which he has levelled many allegations on his fellow workers. His family members revealed that CBI investigation is on in some alleged income tax department scam amounting to crores of rupees and Anand was also one of the accused which was giving him sleepless nights.”