Meerut, Feb. 3 -- An electricity department employee allegedly shot himself dead while on duty in Muzaffarnagar's Titawi area, police said. In a note, the employee claimed that he was being harassed over his appointment under the Scheduled Caste quota, the police added.

The deceased, identified as a 28-year-old from Narsipur, was posted as the sub-station operator at the Mukundpur power substation in Titawi. Just before his death in the early hours of Sunday, he is said to have written a note on the department's WhatsApp group. A while later, he allegedly used a country-made gun to kill himself in a room of the substation.

According to police officials, Shubham was on night duty at the substation. Around 12:30am, his colleagues received...