NEW DELHI, Jan. 27 -- Help has poured in from unexpected quarters for the family of a 35-year-old specially abled Delhi court staffer, who died by suicide earlier this month, reportedly citing overwhelming work pressure.

Within a span of a week, in a rare display of solidarity, the Delhi high court and district courts passed three judicial orders directing that more than Rs.9 lakh paid by accused in unrelated cases be handed over to the kin of Harish, who was 60% differently abled and the sole breadwinner of his family comprising elderly parents and two siblings.

He worked as an ahlmad (court record keeper) and, in a note he left behind, he that he was under "extreme work pressure". While he did not hold any individual responsible for h...