Nagpur: College lecturer allegedly dies by suicide

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A 42-year-old lecturer at GS College of Commerce in Nagpur allegedly committed suicide at his residence and left behind a 14-page note in which he has purportedly claimed harassment by some members of the teaching faculty, police said on Monday, news agency PTI reported.

According to the police, Gajanan Janraoji Karade, a resident of Narendra Nagar, was a Hindi lecturer and had been teaching students of Classes 11 and 12 for the past 12 years.

He hanged himself using a saree tied to a ceiling fan at his residence on Sunday evening when his wife was away in Amravati, they said.

According to relatives, Karade had been under stress in recent days and frequently spoke about enduring harassment from members of the college management and some professors.

On Sunday evening, they said, Karade phoned his brother-in-law and told him he fears he may be attacked by unidentified persons. Karade told his brother-in-law he had documented everything in a diary stored in the refrigerator and urged him to take action if something were to happen to him, said the relatives.

At the time, the lecturer's wife and his brother-in-law's wife were in Amravati attending a relative's wedding. Both rushed to Nagpur, where they found Karade hanging from a ceiling fan, police said.

An official of the Beltarodi police station confirmed the diary containing Karade's writings had been handed over to the police by family members. The diary has writings spanning 14 pages and contains names of some persons and other details, he said.

In a separate case in Mumbai in May 2023, a 50-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide by jumping off from the 11th floor of a commercial building in Borivali. The woman has been identified as Lata Chudasama and lived with his husband and two sons in Sodawala lane, Borivali police said. Soon after the police received information that a woman had committed suicide, police reached the spot and found the woman's body. The body was sent for post-mortem to Shatabdi hospital. The woman had made the last phone call to his son before committing suicide. During the questioning the deceased woman's son and other family members revealed that she was under depression for the last two months.

(With inputs from PTI)