‘Harassed’ by colleagues, teacher ends life

 

Mysore, 25 Feb 2013 (DHNS): Upset over alleged character assassination by her colleagues, Sandhya Rani (30), a school teacher, committed suicide by consuming pesticide in front of her students here on Saturday morning.

 

Wife of late Lokesh and a resident of BMSri Nagar, she taught at the Government Higher Primary School at Arasanakere in Jayapura hobli. Sandhya was rushed to a hospital by Headmaster Parashivamurthy in his car, where she passed away in the evening.

 

In a suicide note addressed to her mother, she has blamed her colleagues for her death.

 

She has stated that they constantly harassed her and had even lodged a complaint against her with the president of the School Development Monitoring Committee (SDMC), while she has refuted their allegations.

 

Husband killed in accident

After losing her husband Lokesh, a private surveyor, in an accident four years ago, Sandhya was living with her eight-year-old son Gagan Kusum and mother Susheelamma.

 

Lokesh had been imprisoned in a case and was out on parole, when he was killed in a mishap.

 

Susheelamma has lodged a complaint with Jayapura police.