An Assistant Teacher of a Government Upper Primary School under Sundargarh district’s Bonei sub-division allegedly committed suicide, reportedly for not being able to produce the Certified Teacher (CT) certificate to save his job.
Police seized the body and after conducting postmortem handed it his family members on Thursday. Sources said Tankadhar Mahata(52) of Sankhaposh village under the lahunipada Police Station was serving as Assistant Teacher in the Bhaliapada Upper Primary School. After returning from school, he committed suicide by hanging from a ceiling rod in his house while his wife was absent.
Tankadhar took the extreme step as he failed to submit his original CT certificate as proof, suspected police.
A week ago, block education officials had asked Tankadhar to submit his original CT certificate. But, despite attempts, he had not been unable to get the certificate a CT school in Cuttack.
“We have registered a unnatural death case and started investigation,” said lahunipada PS IIC US Naik.