Showroom staffer slits wrists in Ahmedabad, blames owner

AHMEDABAD: A 39-year-old man, who works at a well-known saree showroom at Shivranjani Crossroads, has accused the owner of intentionally hounding and humiliating him to such an extent that he was driven to attempt suicide.
According to the FIR, on February 25, Kanu Prajapati had slit his wrists and neck with a blade at a garden near Zero Point on Ahmedabad-Vadodara expressway.He was taken, bleeding heavily, to LG Hospital where he has been under treatment ever since. He filed his complaint on Monday, after he recovered.
In his FIR, he named his employer Pradeep Shah, saying, “Shah had been intentionally harassing me to force me into quitting my job. He started by cutting 25% of my day’s wages if I was less than five minutes late to work and 50% if more than five minutes late,” Prajapati stated in his FIR.
“He also made me come to work on Saturdays and Sundays. If I did not turn up, he would mark me absent on Monday too, saying, ‘here take your day off, never sparing any chance at causing me financial loss’,” Prajapati stated, adding that at any given chance, Shah would humiliate him in the presence of all other workers at the shop.