Congress stages protest after teacher commits suicide

The Congress staged a protest before the Badnawar police station after an assistant teacher Chandulal Ossari posted at Teekhi primary school in Badnawar tehsil allegedly committed suicide after he was upset at not receiving wages, officials said here today.
Madhya Pradesh state Congress general secretary and MLA Jeetu Patwari, Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress president Kunal Choudhry and former MLA Harshwardhan Dattigaon, among others, staged a protest before Badnawar police station, demanding that the police register the statement of the deceased's son.
Dhar District Collector Jaishri Kiyawat ordered a magisterial probe into the incident after the teacher took the extreme step after returning from school yesterday.

Kanhaiyalal Dawar, principal in-charge of the cluster of schools quoted Ossari's family members as saying that he took the extreme step after returning from school.
Instead of returning to his residence, he went to a farm at Teekhi village and consumed some poison, his family members said.
A suicide note carrying his signature also went viral on a social networking site alleging that since the Madhya Pradesh government had not increased his salary, he had consumed poison.