A physical education teacher (PET) allegedly committed suicide by jumping into Godavari river at Gudem village in Mancherial district late on Thursday afternoon.
The deceased was identified as Jaipal, 56, a PET at a State-run school in Naspur, police said.
Jaipal, a native of Rebbanapalli village in Dandepalli mandal, got entangled in financial problems, sources said.
He reportedly stood surety to the loan taken by one of his friends, who turned a “defaulter’, landing him in trouble.
The police fished out his body from the river and shifted it to the mortuary at the government hospital in Mancherial.
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