KOTA: A
BTech final-year student
from UP’s Gonda was found dead in a
Kota
PG accommodation on Wednesday night in a suspected case of suicide, the third such death in Rajasthan’s coaching hub in less than a fortnight.
The young man from Veerpur village of Gonda was a student at SRM Institute of Science & Technology in Chennai. He had been attending online classes from Kota.
DSP Dharmveer Singh said the deceased came to Kota in 2016 to prepare for engineering entrance exams and studied in more than one coaching institute until 2019. It wasn't immediately known why he chose to be based in Kota even after getting into the SRM Chennai.
Police said they were informed of the engineering student’s death in the PG room in Vigyan Nagar around 8pm on Thursday. He was using earphones, and his mobile phone was in his trouser pocket, suggesting he may have been speaking to someone before he died. No suicide note was found, cops said.
The family of the deceased received his body on Friday. Although there is no complaint about potential foul play, police have started an investigation. Last Monday, an 18-year-old JEE Mains aspirant was found dead in her Kota home on the eve of the test. The girl, a resident of Kota's Shiv Vihar Colony, scribbled a purported suicide note addressed to her parents, suggesting the pressure of preparing for the exam got to her.
On January 23, a 19-year-old NEET aspirant from UP's Moradabad district died by suicide in his hostel room. He had been preparing for the exam at an institute in the city for over a year. Rajasthan education minister Madan Dilawar said on Friday that parents were partly to blame for most student suicides. “Despite many children not having any interest in engineering or medical studies, they are being pressured to become engineers or doctors. In such situations, children take drastic steps,” he said while attending a presser in Jodhpur.
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