Karur school teacher, who worked at school where a Class 12 girl ended her life, dies by suicide
The Hindu
Police recovered a handwritten note, believed to have been written by the 44-year-old teacher, that claimed students were making false insinuations against him
A 44-year-old Mathematics teacher of a private school in Karur allegedly ended his life at his father-in-law’s house at Sengattupatti near Thuraiyur in the district on Wednesday.
The teacher, A. Saravanan, who resided at Karur with his family worked in the same school . The girl in a handwritten note had complained of sexual harassment but did not name anyone.
The Thuraiyur Police recovered a handwritten note in a diary purportedly written by Saravanan in which he claims that students of the school were wrongly making insinuations against him, and that he felt ashamed in front of them. “I haven’t done anything wrong. I do not know why they are doing so,” the note read.
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