Teacher uses school guard’s gun to take own life
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A government schoolteacher committed suicide in the school’s premises.
According to the CEO of Education of Sahiwal, Muhammad Saeed, Farrukh Chaudhry, a resident of 175/9-L, had been posted at the Government Boys High School 8/11L.
Farrukh Chaudhry had been suffering from a mental illness for a long time and was on medication.
On Wednesday, when the school’s guard was going to the mosque for offering prayers, he kept his official gun in the school’s store, locked the room and left its keys with one of the school’s clerks.
Seeing an opportunity to carry out his plan, Farrukh Chaudhry asked the school clerk for the keys to the store on a false pretext.
The clerk got deceived by Farrukh’s ruse and handed him the store keys and went for offering prayers himself.
Farrukh Chaudhry went to the store, grabbed the gun and shot himself.
Farrukh had been on medication for the last six years.
He left behind a wife, three sons and a daughter.
As soon as the incident was reported, the DSP of Chichawatni, Sajid Mehmood Gondal, and the SHO of Ghaziabad Police Station, Umar Daraz, immediately reached the spot and opened their investigations.
The police shifted Farrukh’s body to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital of Chichawatni for postmortem.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 9th, 2022.