A contract employee, Ramanjaneyulu, working as a lab technician in the Indian Red Cross Society Blood Bank here attempted suicide on Saturday by dousing himself with petrol, but the staff at the District Panchayat Office thwarted the untoward incident and sent him to the Government General Hospital.
The employee was removed from service by the Red Cross Society Central Office at Vijayawada recently, but he had reportedly refused to take orders given by the Joint Collector.
Responding to the allegations levelled by Mr. Ramanjaneyulu, District Panchayat Officer Nagaraja Naidu, in-charge of the Kurnool Red Cross Society, denied the charges that the higherups in the Red Cross were “harassing” him.
