Nagpur: 42-year-old lecturer dies by suicide blames harassment by faculty in suicide note

A 42-year-old lecturer at the GS College of Commerce in Nagpur allegedly killed himself at home and left behind a 14-page note in which he purportedly accused some members of the teaching staff of harassing him.

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.