Jet employee on leave without pay for a year commits suicide

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April 28, 2019

Mumbai, Apr 28: A Jet Airwaysemployee undergoing treatment for stomach cancer died after jumping off the terrace of his four-storey building in Nalasopara on Friday afternoon, a day after he was discharged from hospital.

Police suspect Shailesh Singh (52), a senior technician, committed suicide as “he was suffering from depression”.

Singh, who was on a leave without pay for over a year, had been with Jet, which temporarily shut on April 17, for over 23 years. Inspector Daniel Ben of Tuling police told media that Singh’s family said he was depressed due to his ailment and his son, who too is employed in Jet’s engineering department, had not received salary for two months.

Residents of the building saw Singh, a fourth-floor resident of Sai Pooja building, sitting on the terrace parapet minutes before he jumped off around 3.30pm, said Tuling police. Singh fell into a drain that runs alongside railway tracks parallel to the building.

A source in the Jet Aircraft Maintenance Engineers’ Association said that Singh was financially drained due to the mounting treatment expenses. “While he was on leave without pay, his son Saurabh (23) was bearing the burden of the household. A few months ago, the staff had collected money for Singh’s treatment,” he said. He is survived by his wife and four children.

A member of the association, requesting anonymity, said that Singh’s suicide was a fallout of the Jet crisis. He said that many employees and their families were finding it difficult to meet medical expenses.

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23 Israel-linked terrorists killed, 46 captured by Iran army

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November 15,2024

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has killed or captured 69 terrorists linked to the Israeli spy agency Mossad during a major counterterrorism drill in the country's southeast, its spokesman says.

General Ahmad Shafaei, the spokesman for the “Martyrs of Security” drill, said Friday that a total of 23 terrorists have been killed and another 46 arrested in various clean-up operations ever since the IRGC Ground Force launched it in the Sistan and Baluchestan province on November 1.

Seven terrorists have also turned themselves in during the period.

“The undeniable fact about terrorists is that they rely on arrogant powers, particularly the intelligence service of the wicked and vicious Zionist regime," Shafaei said.

“Unfortunately, weapons and munitions at terrorists’ disposal are among the most sophisticated ones in the world. This accounts for their heavy dependence.”

The official stated that several members of the disbanded terror teams were non-Iranian nationals, who had been hired by foreign intelligence agencies to carry out acts of sabotage and terror inside Iran.

In a most recent operation, six terrorists were arrested and four others were eliminated, three of whom were non-Iranians, he added.

On October 26, ten members of Iran's law enforcement forces were killed in a terrorist attack in the Gohar Kuh district of Taftan in the Sistan and Baluchestan province.

The so-called Jaish al-Adl terrorist group claimed responsibility for the assault, which was one of the deadliest in the province in recent months.

The group has carried out numerous terrorist attacks in Iran, primarily in Sistan and Baluchestan.

Its tactics include the abduction of border guards as well as targeting civilians and police stations within the province to incite chaos and disorder.

In January, Iran launched a military operation during which the headquarters of the Pakistan-based terrorist group was targeted in missile strikes, destroying its infrastructure.

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