Patna: Over 20,000 engineers in Patna will begin an agitation on Monday demanding a government investigation into the alleged murder of their colleague.
The Bihar Engineering Services Coordination Committee alleges that Public Works Department (PWD) engineer Yogendra Pandey was killed when he had gone to meet the Sitamarhi Superintendent of Police Chhatranil Singh.
His body was found on June 18.
According to the police, Pandey committed suicide by jumping from the roof of a three-storey building of the collectorate in Sitamarhi but the engineers' associations have been claimed that Pandey was killed.
The engineers belonging to five associations have threatened to go on an indefinite strike from June 25 if the government does not order a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
BESCC President Aditya Narayan Jha Anal and General Secretary Kamla Kant Sharma warned Bihar government that if their demand of a CBI probe was not accepted the engineers to boycott work of all the departments from June 22 to June 24.
A demonstration would be organised on June 24 in support of the demands, they said.
Pandey's daughter claimed that a contractor had been harassing her father and she believed that her father was killed.
"I don't know the name of the contractor but he was demanding double the amount of money as his payment from my father without having completed the work. My father refused to pay him as his work wasn't upto the mark. Father's secretary had even pressurised the contractor to be blacklisted. I'm sure my father was deliberately pushed from the terrace," she said.
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