Controversies and Pratibha Patil go hand in hand. Now, a suicide note left behind by a schoolteacher, has named Patil's husband as one his tormentors.
Schoolteacher names her husband in suicide note
NAGPUR: Controversies and Pratibha Patil, the UPA-Left candidate for the Presidential poll, go hand in hand. Now, a suicide note left behind by a schoolteacher, has named Patil's husband as one his tormentors.
Kisan Dhage, who ended his life in November 1998, had penned a suicide note on a stamp paper addressed to the Chief Justice of Mumbai High Court. The note explained why he had no option but end his own life after being harassed by the “rich and mighty”. “Jeevo jivasya jeevanam (one's life is food for others)," he wrote in that note.
Dhage allegedly named, among others, Devisingh Ramsingh Shekhawat, husband of Pratibha Patil.
Earlier, slain Jalgaon Congress president VG Patil's widow, Rajni Patil, had accused Pratibhatai's brother GN Patil of hatching the murder conspiracy. And now, her husband's name has come in a case of abetment to suicide.
On Thursday, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court adjourned till July 12 the hearing on a petition filed by Shekhawat, who wants criminal proceedings against him on charges of abetting Dhage’s suicide dropped.
A teacher with an ashram school, run by the Vidya Prasarak Shikshan Mandal, in Sungaon village, Buldana district, Dhage had said in his suicide note that he was committing suicide because he was tired of the mental harassment caused by Shekhawat, chairman of the institution, and four others.
Dhage had written that he was illegally transferred to another village as ashram school hostel superintendent, a fact corroborated by the education department. Dhage had moved the Nagpur bench of the high court in 1998. The bench had directed the education society and the school to release his salary pending for 15 months and reinstate him as assistant teacher, following a plea filed by him before the bench. But, the society did not follow the court directives and continued to harass Dhage.
When the police merely registered a case of accidental death without taking cognizance of his note, Dhage’s wife Mangala appealed to the judicial magistrate first class (JMFC) in Jalgaon Jamod, a tehsil in Buldana district. She alleged that the five defendants, cited by her in the petition, acted in collusion to harass Kisan.
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