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Bengaluru: A 44-year-old English professor attempted suicide by consuming pills in her classroom on Monday, police said.
Shabana, the head of the Department of English at a private college in Jayanagar, consumed more than 10 tablets in the classroom and collapsed around 9:45 am. She survived after staff and students rushed her to a hospital in the nick of time.
The hospital submitted a Medico Legal Case (MLC) report to the police. Shabana told the police that she was “harassed” by the college principal and other staff.
The police took a complaint from her and conducted a preliminary probe, which revealed that an internal inquiry was ongoing against Shabana. The inquiry had indicted Shabana for giving information about a colleague to a third person. The college authorities demoted her and she learnt about this on Monday.