Headmaster dies by suicide over ‘pressure to release funds for poorly made Chhattisgarh school’, contractor arrested

Police have arrested a contractor for abetment to suicide after a school headmaster allegedly died by hanging in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district. The incident is linked to the construction of a school building, with the contractor involved in the project. This comes after a journalist was murdered in the same district over a report exposing substandard work.