DHANGADI, AUGUST 26

Police have found a suicide note of the teacher who was found dead in Kailali's Dhangadi on Thursday.

Twenty-two-year-old Rajeshwori Dadal from Darchula's Marma Rural Municipality-6 had been teaching at Dipendra Police School of Dhangadi. The teacher has left a note for her sister and mother, blaming her death on her lover whom she said had forced her into physical relation with the promise of marrying her.

'I trusted him and did whatever he said, but I didn't know I would end up taking my own life,' the note read. 'I love you so much, Mommy and Didi, but I couldn't express it. Forgive me Mommy and Didi, but I couldn't imagine living by being disgraced,' it read further.

Rajeshwori had joined the school recently as a contract-based teacher. She had been staying at her relative's house in Dhangadi. As learnt, she and a distant relative of hers from Marma itself had affairs.

Though her family had talked to both sides and told them to end their relationship, Jagadish Kottari, a married man, is learnt to have met Rajeshwori and spent a few days with her in Dhangadi a few days ago.

Earlier, the two had confessed to be in love and agreed to end their relationship. A day later, the girl's body was found hanging at a waiting lounge near Rana temple in Dhangadi on Wednesday morning.

A version of this article appears in the print on August 27, 2023, of The Himalayan Times.