8 days later, a suicide note in NRHM scam
Eight days after Mahendra Sharma’s decomposed body was found in his one-room residence in Pansganwa, in Lakhimpur, the police has “recovered” a suicide note purportedly written by the health department clerk linked to the NRHM scam.
The Lakhimpur police now claims Sharma (the sixth person connected to the scam to die) committed suicide because his suicide note says so. The post-mortem report had clearly stated that Sharma was “smothered to death”, and it is near impossible for anyone to smother himself to death. Yet the police are now seemingly keen to turn it into a case of suicide.
Interestingly, the police claims the suicide note, dated February 7, the date the clerk went missing, was recovered from one of the pockets of a jacket worn by Mahendra Sharma at the time of his death. The police, however, has no answer as to why it took them eight days to produce the suicide note and why they did not confirm the presence of the note on the day the body was found.
The police also has no answer to why there was a gap of five days between the writing of the suicide note, if it was written on February 7, and Sharma ending his life. According to the post-mortem report, Mahendra Sharma died about three days before the body was found.
“In the suicide note, Sharma has said that he is ending his life because he was being harassed with frequent transfers by the CMO, Dr J.P. Bhargava, and three others (clerk Rajesh Hans, medical superintendent S.C. Gupta and deputy CMO Balbir Singh). He has written that he was asked to pay `20,000 for cancellation of his first transfer and then `50,000 to cancel his second transfer,” said Lakhimpur SP Amit Chandra. The suicide note is being sent for examination by a handwriting expert and the clerk’s clothes are being sent for forensic examination.
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