“We stayed together. The main reason he died by suicide is because he was replaced…he used to say that ‘I have lost my job’ and was often stressed,” said a relative of Samarveer Singh, a 33-year-old ad-hoc lecturer who was found dead at his home in Delhi.
Singh, who was from Rajasthan’s Baran district, taught philosophy at the Hindu College for seven years. He was removed in February following interviews for permanent faculty positions across several DU colleges – around 460 ad-hoc teachers have been removed between September last year and April this year, according to sources.
