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AHMEDABAD: Five months after his death, old messages found on the cellphone of a 19-year-old unmarried man revealed that his suicide had been due to mental pressure caused by his relationship with his employer’s wife, with his employer forcing him to ‘love’ his wife while withholding his salary. Vasna police have booked the deceased Nikhil Parmar’s employer and his wife for abetment to suicide and also under charges of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocity) Act, and begun an investigation. Parmar was a resident of Gomtipur.

The FIR states that Nikhil Parmar, the deceased, had joined a firm in Vasna in October 2018. His employer’s business was of supplying wedding decoration. After 10 months had gone by, Nikhil told his father Ashok Parmar that he didn’t want to work at the firm, as both his employer and his wife were harassing him.

Ashok told Nikhil to leave the job, but on July 14, 2019, Nikhil’s employer called him up and told him to come and collect his salary. Nikhil went to meet his employer on July 15, 2019, and later told his father that his employer was taking him on a tour to Rajasthan.

On July 20, Nikhil’s employer called up his father and said that Nikhil had committed suicide at the firm’s godown by hanging. When Ashok reached there he found Nikhil lying dead at his employer’s office.

After three months of his death, Nikhil’s siblings Sanjay and Nisha checked his cellphone and found incriminating conversations between Nikhil and his employer. They found Nikhil had sent a message to his employer which reads, “You directed me to make your wife fall in love with me. I followed that and she also began loving me. We were into illicit relationship and then you wanted to end the relationship. You also threatened me that you would not give me any salary. Please, do not treat me like a slave. Have mercy upon me.”

On primary inquiry, Vasna police found that Nikhil’s employer, 45, had urged him into a relationship with his wife, 25.Later, he asked Nikhil to end the relationship. But when Nikhil told his employer’s wife it was not possible for him to continue the relationship, she became upset and verbally abused him.

Later, she kept pressing Nikhil to continue their relationship, but her husband now warned Nikhil to stay away. Nikhil could not deal with the pressure and committed suicide.

