Guwahati, July 23 -- A tragic incident in Assam's Bongaigaon district has sparked public anger after police arrested two senior officials from the Public Works Department (PWD) on charges of mentally harassing a junior engineer who later died by suicide.

The victim, Joshita Das, worked as a Junior Engineer with the PWD (Housing) division and had served in the area for nearly a year. On Monday, authorities discovered her body hanging in her rented residence at Barpara.

Investigators recovered a suicide note that directly accused two senior PWD officials, former Executive Engineer Dinesh Sharma Medhi and former Sub-Divisional Officer Aminul Islam, of subjecting her to continuous mental harassment.

In her note, Joshita described how the t...