A government primary school teacher and booth-level officer (BLO), Dhananjay, 50, died by suicide inside his classroom at Balur in Shikaripur taluk, Karnataka on January 13. He asked his students to play outside around 11.30 a.m., locking the classroom from inside. When he did not respond for a long time, colleagues and villagers broke the door and found him dead. Dhananjay’s wife, Asha, told the police that her husband was stressed from work and wanted to quit, but she asked him to continue for their children’s education. He had come early to the village from Honnali to collect voter information as a BLO. The Shikaripur Rural police registered an unnatural death case. For help with distress or suicidal thoughts, call Tele Manas at 14416 or 18008914416, or Arogya Sahayavani at 104.