Denied leave, bank official seeks permission to kill wife
Wife had been suffering from serious kidney ailments for more than a year
Patna: A depressed bank official in Bihar applied for two-day leave so that he could kill his wife and perform her last rites after the office denied him leave despite repeated requests.
As per the report, bank manager Munna Prasad who is posted with the Central Bihar Rural Bank in Buxur district had been seeking leave from his office for long to treat his ailing wife.
His wife had been suffering from serious kidney ailments for more than a year and required kidney dialysis twice in a week.
But whenever Prasad applied for leave, the office rejected his request citing staff crunch and other reasons.
Special leave
An irked Prasad finally sought for special leave from office just for two days so that he could kill his ailing wife and perform her last rites.
He made this request last week and also sent the copies of his leave petition to the President of India as well as the Prime Minister, prompting the authorities to grant him leave soon.
The harassed manager said regional officers avoided picking up his phone calls when he made several calls. “A lady officer who finally picked up my call told me that he could get leave only for performing last rites. That’s why I have applied for this leave on that very ground,” the manager told the media.
This was not the first time any official in India cited absurd reason for seeking leave.
Excuse
Last year, a police constable from neighbouring Uttar Pradesh sought a month leave from the office to “expand his family” after the officials rejected his routine leave applications.
As his leave application went viral in the media, the authorities granted him a 45-day leave. The said cop, Som Singh, was posted with Mahoba Kotwali police station.
Yet another cop Dharmendra Yadav, posted with Lucknow Reserve Police Lines, requested his boss to grant leave so that his wife didn’t desert him.
“My wife says don’t come home until you get a minimum of 10 days leave,” the cop cited in his leave application, eventually getting the leave.