16 October,2023 08:09 PM IST | Latur | mid-day online correspondent
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As many as twenty-two staffers reportedly attempted to immolate themselves outside a sugar factory in Maharashtra's Latur on Monday to protest the non-payment of salaries, police said, according to the PTI.
The news agency reported, the staffers from the security and electrical departments of the Pannageshwar sugar factory at Pangaon in Renapur tehsil attempted to immolate themselves by pouring diesel and petrol on their bodies, an official said.
The protestors had not been paid their salaries for the last 15 months and they had submitted a memorandum to the factory authorities on September 25, demanding that their salaries be paid and the provident fund be deposited, he said.
The police have detained the protesting employees, the official said.
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Meanwhile, in an another incident last month, a 35-year-old man who was reportedly claiming to be project-affected and seeking a government job had jumped onto a safety net at the state headquarters Mantralaya in Mumbai, police had on September 27 told the news agency PTI.
The man jumped off the second floor of Mantralaya, the headquarters of the Maharashtra government in South Mumbai but landed on the safety net, police had said.
"A man jumped off the second floor of Mantralaya. He fell on the safety net put up there so there was nothing untoward and he was safe," Mumbai Police had earlier said, reported news agency ANI.
According to the PTI, Ranjeet Awhad, a resident of Pathardi in Ahmednagar district, was visiting the Mantralaya in the afternoon to seek a full-time teacher's job at a government school, claiming that he was project-affected and wanted a job.
A safety net has been installed in the building after incidents of people jumping from the higher floors in a bid to end life. Ranjeet Awhad landed in the net and was removed by the police personnel on duty, an official had told PTI.
Later a case under section 309 of the IPC (attempt to commit suicide) was registered against him at Marine Drive police station. He was produced before a court which released him on bail, the official told PTI.
(with PTI inputs)
