No salary for ten months; BSNL employee commits suicide in office

MALAPPURAM: A distraught BSNL employee committed suicide. Ramakrishnan, a Vandoor native and a temporary employee, committed suicide in the Nilamboor BSNL office. He was working as a part-time sweeper at the Nilamboor office for the past 30 years. He didn’t receive his salary for the past ten months which is believed to have forced him towards suicide.

Employees are staging a protest at the BSNL office in Malappuram for the past 130 days.