Kota Suicide: A 23-year-old student’s body was recovered from the bushes near a railway track early on Thursday in Kota, as he allegedly committed suicide. The preliminary police probe indicated that he had consumed a poisonous substance. Sharma had been preparing for NEET for the past three years and had recently confided with his sister that he needed one more year to fully prepare for the examination.
The incident occurred a week after Roshan told his parents that he didn’t wish to appear for the NEET-UG examination on May 4.
Roshan's father, Ranjit Sharma, stated in a PTI report on Friday, "Our son was studious, scoring 550-600 marks in routine tests at the coaching institute," as he struggled to understand the reason for his son's suicide just days before the exam.
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The police handed over Roshan's body to the family after a post-mortem on Friday. Circle Inspector at Kunhadi police station, Arvind Bhardwaj, said that a case under BNSS Section 194(A) (enquiry on suicide) for investigation has been registered.
Ranjit Sharma said that they came to Kota on April 22 to take their son back home, but he refused. When their son couldn't be found in his hostel, they contacted him over the phone, only to be told that he would neither sit for the NEET exam this year nor return home.
On April 22, an 18-year-old NEET aspirant from Bihar allegedly hanged himself to death in his hostel room. In a note, the student said neither his family nor his preparation for NEET-UG was the reason behind his extreme step, police had said.
The 2022 NCRB report recorded a total of 13,044 student suicides, representing an insignificant decrease of 0.3% from the previous year's numbers.
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with inputs from PTI