Woman ends life after caste clouds cop job in UP
The deceased, Sarita Dwivedi, left a 10-page suicide note that was addressed to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Upset over the recruitment procedure of government jobs in Uttar Pradesh, a 22-year-old woman committed suicide by hanging herself from a tree.
The incident took place in the Kakori locality of Lucknow. The deceased, Sarita Dwivedi, left a 10-page suicide note that was addressed to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav. Sarita failed to qualify for a vacancy of police constable in the state police services even after clearing the physical test.
"Mummy, please ask them (Akhilesh Yadav and Mulayam Singh Yadav) that when the merit list was released there was no separate category for general candidates then how come my rank dipped to 288 from 188 in the past four days. Papa, I have not quit but belonging to the general category was a curse for me. First, they questioned my height after which the ever-changing reservation policy of the state government forced me to take this extreme step (sic)," Sarita wrote in her suicide note.
"The caste preference changes with the change of guard in the state government and every successive government prefers giving priority to the caste to which the chief minister and his/her minister belongs", the suicide note further reads.
However, the police have raised doubts about the authenticity of the suicide note. "We asked the family members to give us the suicide note. However, they handed us a photocopy of it and we asked for Sarita's notebook to match the handwriting, they gave it to us after much hesitation", SP (rural) Manoj Sonkar said. "The body was handed over to the family after postmortem and the matter is now being probed further", he added.