ISLAMABAD: A 25-year-old man, who claimed to be the employee of an MNA, tried to commit suicide by consuming poison against the attitude of his employer on Friday.

However, the MNA claimed that he had dismissed the employee two years ago and the allegations against him were false.

A citizen informed the police that a man was lying unconscious at D-Chowk. The police reached the spot and shifted him to Polyclinic.

According to police sources, a letter was recovered from the pocket of the man which stated that he was an employee of the MNA. It said the MNA used to pay him only Rs2,000 per month. He was also fed up with the attitude of the lawmaker.

Nawaz Gondal, an official of the Secretariat police station, who shifted the man to hospital, told Dawn that his stomach was washed after which he was out of danger.

“The man claimed that he was the cook of an MNA and used to live in the Parliament Lodges,” he said.

But the MNA told the police that he had dismissed the employee two years ago. However, a week ago, the man again approached the MNA seeking his job back.

But the MNA did not allow the man to work with him.

Published in Dawn, February 28th, 2015

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