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A father who missed among the most important days of his son's life. He is also an engineer who resigned after threats from a politician and is missing.
Where is Shiv Das, an irrigation department engineer who has complained to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati about being threatened by one of her MLA's.
It is the latest in a series of scandals for Mayawati's ministers and MLAs. While the chief minister has ordered an inquiry, several questions remain unanswered.
Shiv Das, a chief engineer with the irrigation department in Uttar Pradesh, resigned a day after gun-totting BSP MLA threatened him.
On Friday, the BSP MLA, Bhim Rao Ambedkar, abused him over the phone for failing to get hand pumps installed in his constituency. He also handed out a death threat, as the engineer claims in this resignation letter addressed to the chief minister.
"We don't know where he is, I am getting my nephew married off. We have been trying to call him, but can't get through, says missing engineer's brother Shiv Prakash.
Mayawati has ordered a probe into the incident, but the MLA denies the allegations.
"Can I not talk to an engineer and ask him to do work for my constituency. I am willing to go to jail if these allegations are proved right," says Bhim Rao Ambedkar, MLA from Etawah.
The engineer's colleagues are worried. Particularly as he wrote the MLA threatened him with the same fate as Manoj Gupta, the PWD engineer beaten to death last year, allegedly at the behest of another BSP MLA, for not paying up a huge sum for Mayawati's birthday celebrations.
The state engineers association claims the MLA has done this before. "The BSP MLA had threatened him in the past also, and some other engineers, for getting work done. This is not the first time. Another engineer called me once and had complained about him," says A K Farooqi, president, UP Engineers Association.
The family of Das isn't comforted by the government's inquiry. They just want him home safely.
Where is Shiv Das, an irrigation department engineer who has complained to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati about being threatened by one of her MLA's.
It is the latest in a series of scandals for Mayawati's ministers and MLAs. While the chief minister has ordered an inquiry, several questions remain unanswered.
Shiv Das, a chief engineer with the irrigation department in Uttar Pradesh, resigned a day after gun-totting BSP MLA threatened him.
On Friday, the BSP MLA, Bhim Rao Ambedkar, abused him over the phone for failing to get hand pumps installed in his constituency. He also handed out a death threat, as the engineer claims in this resignation letter addressed to the chief minister.
"We don't know where he is, I am getting my nephew married off. We have been trying to call him, but can't get through, says missing engineer's brother Shiv Prakash.
Mayawati has ordered a probe into the incident, but the MLA denies the allegations.
"Can I not talk to an engineer and ask him to do work for my constituency. I am willing to go to jail if these allegations are proved right," says Bhim Rao Ambedkar, MLA from Etawah.
The engineer's colleagues are worried. Particularly as he wrote the MLA threatened him with the same fate as Manoj Gupta, the PWD engineer beaten to death last year, allegedly at the behest of another BSP MLA, for not paying up a huge sum for Mayawati's birthday celebrations.
The state engineers association claims the MLA has done this before. "The BSP MLA had threatened him in the past also, and some other engineers, for getting work done. This is not the first time. Another engineer called me once and had complained about him," says A K Farooqi, president, UP Engineers Association.
The family of Das isn't comforted by the government's inquiry. They just want him home safely.
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