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SILCHAR: An employee of the Silchar municipal board committed suicide by jumping into the Barak river on Friday evening. "Rs 30,000 will be handed over to the family of the deceased on behalf of the civic board for bearing the expenses of his funeral," said Tagore. A search operation was initiated, and his dead body was recovered at around 1 pm on Saturday. After some time, he telephoned his son, a student of class 12, to say that he would not be returning and was going to end his life. The body was sent to Silchar Medical College Hospital for autopsy.An All Assam Civic Bodies Workers' Federation spokesperson said Deb had been at the forefront of the ongoing agitation by municipal employees in Silchar and that the state government needs to take the blame for Deb's death..