Voice 9, Nagpur: A 42-year-old lecturer at Nagpur's GS College of Commerce allegedly committed suicide at his home and left behind a 14-page note in which he reportedly claimed harassment by some members of the teaching faculty.
Beltarodi police station
confirmed that 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 people and other details, he said.
Gajanan
Janraoji Karade, a Narendra Nagar resident, was a Hindi teacher who has been
teaching students in Classes 11 and 12 for the last 12 years, according to the
police. The lecturer's wife and his brother-in-law's wife were in Amravati at
the time, attending a relative's wedding. Both hurried to Nagpur, where they
saw Karade hanging from a ceiling fan, according to authorities.
They
said he hung himself with a saree attached to a ceiling fan at his home on
Sunday evening when his wife was gone in Amravati.
According to relatives, Karade
had been stressed in recent days and regularly complained about harassment from
members of the college administration and some lecturers.