Overview
- Police in Chhattisgarh arrested contractor Devashish Mandal after a suicide note named him in the death of headmaster Raju Pujari.
- Investigators registered an abetment-to-suicide case and said they are tracing at least two more people named in the note.
- The probe centers on a fight over payment for a school building handled by the School Management Committee in Palnar.
- About 40% of the project money was paid, and police say pressure to release the remaining few lakh rupees weighed on Pujari.
- A local MLA says the construction was poor and that Pujari withheld funds fearing a collapse and corruption charges, reflecting wider worries in a district where a journalist was killed last year after exposing shoddy work.