This story is from September 28, 2016

He was under severe stress due to unruly gang in school, says son

He was under severe stress due to unruly gang in school, says son
NEW DELHI: He shared with me the fact that some students had been giving dire threats to teachers not to intervene in what they were doing, said Anush Kumar about his father Mukesh Kumar, who was knifed to death on Monday.
The apprehension of the two students who murdered his father on Tuesday was of little comfort to the family, for whom the man was the only bread winner.

Anush, a law student, said that his father was visibly under stress for the past two weeks and had told him about the unruly gang of six-seven boys in school. “He told me about the times when these boys brought knives to school and threatened other children,” he said. “The school authorities were also fed up with them.”
Father of three — daughters Kanika and Bhavni and son Anush — Kumar had been working at the government school since 2012. On Monday, he left their house in Bahadurgarh at 11 am.
“I called him at 5.30 pm, but when he didn’t answer, I assumed that he was busy,” said his sobbing wife, Neelam. “I tried again after some time but got no response. It’s only after 7 pm that I received a call from my brother asking me to reach the hospital. A few hours later, the doctors told me my husband hadn’t survived the emergency operation.”
The family felt that timely action could have prevented the attack on Kumar. “Many students complained about the boys to him every day and he took all those concerns to the principal. But nothing was done,” said Kanika, the eldest daughter. Kumar was a popular teacher.

“Many of his former students regularly visited him at home and talked about the things he had taught them,” said Anit, Kumar’s nephew. “Only last week, one of his students dropped in to inform us she had got a government job, giving him all the credit for it.”
At the government boys’ school in Phase II, Nangloi, where Kumar taught for a decade before being promoted and sent to his current institution on Sultanpuri Road, Sunil, a Class XII student, remembered being taught by “Mukesh sir” in Classes VII and VIII. “He helped us always, and we could approach him after classes if we didn’t understand something,” said Sunil.
His colleagues too remembered Kumar as a gentle person. “He wasn’t one to shout back, argue or abuse anyone, let alone students, that was not him,” said a senior teacher.
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