Suicide over 'sex abuse'; accused engineer kills self, IAS officer named in FIR

A sexual harassment case against an IAS officer and a senior engineer has led to two suicides in Arunachal Pradesh. The first death occurred on October 23 - a 19-year-old man who detailed months of sexual abuse, intimidation, and mental torture in his suicide note.

"The reason for my death is Talo Potom (IAS). If he hadn’t recruited me to this post, I wouldn’t have committed suicide. Because of him, I did everything I did, and now there’s no way left to live, the note read.

The note also detailed alleged intimate relations, manipulation, broken promises involving money, and subsequent threats. In one portion, he wrote that he had contracted HIV and accused one of the officers of abandoning and blackmailing him afterward.

Hours after the note surfaced, the Public Works Department engineer allegedly shot himself dead. The twin incidents have sent shockwaves across the state.

According to the police, the body of the deceased was discovered around 11 am by a neighbor who noticed the door ajar and raised an alarm after receiving no response from inside.

The Nirjuli Police Station registered a case of unnatural death under Section 194 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita.

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