Patna: A government doctor, rattled by the suicide of Buxar senior deputy collector Tauqeer Akram, has written to chief minister Nitish Kumar, complaining that he hasn't received his salary for the past 19 months.

Dr Piyush Kumar - posted at the additional primary health centre in Gangolia of Muzaffarpur's Saraiya block, around 100km north of Patna - has also alleged mental and financial torture by his boss, the Saraiya primary health centre (PHC) in-charge.

Piyush (38) has marked copies of the letter sent to Nitish to the district magistrate, the regional additional director of health services, the civil surgeon, and his immediate boss Shivshankar.

"We get news about government officials committing suicide due to not getting salary. It seems very logical for somebody like me. I am so stressed that I am unable to prevent such thoughts," Piyush has written in his letter. "I am being tortured by the in-charge of Saraiya PHC in various ways so that I take a wrong step out of frustration."

The head clerk of Saraiya PHC, Piyush claimed, demanded bribe for the release of his salary.

Muzaffarpur civil surgeon Lalita Singh said she has constituted a three-member inquiry team to probe the delay in the doctor's salary and the bribe allegations.