BENGALURU: A man ended his life in front of a panchayat office for non-payment of salary for the past 27 months and mental harassment by officials. The incident happened at the Honganuru grama panchayat office in Karnataka's Chamarajanagar district. Chikoosa Nayak had been working as a waterman since 2016.

He had alleged before his death that he had not received salary from the panchayat office for the last 27 months. Chikoosa had requested settlement of his pending salary. He even submitted his resignation due to ill health. However, Chikoosa had mentioned in his suicide note that the arrears were not paid.

'I had requested the Panchayat Development Officer (PDO) and the grama panchayat president to clear my salary, but they ignored my request. I approached higher officials but nothing

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