Gorakhpur, Feb. 21 -- A 37-year-old teacher allegedly died by suicide after being harassed by officials and clerical staff of the Deoria Education Department here.
Teacher Krishna Mohan Singh, a resident of Haraiya Buzurg in Kushinagar district, left behind a four-page suicide note and recorded a video before hanging himself at his residence in Shivpur Sahbazganj Canal Road under the Gulriha police station limits, police said today.
In the note and video, Singh accused officials and employees of extorting Rs 16 lakh from him on the pretext of securing a job and subjecting him to continuous harassment. He claimed he had mortgaged his wife's jewellery and taken a bank loan to arrange the money. Despite paying the amount, he neither received...