18-year-old NEET aspirant allegedly commits suicide in Kota

Kota: In a tragic incident, an 18-year-old NEET aspirant from Swai Madhopur district allegedly committed suicide.

The police informed PTI that the aspirant hung himself in his PG room early Tuesday. The youth, Ankush Meena, did not leave behind any message. Police, however, surmised he killed himself over a love affair.

According to police, Ankush had been preparing for (NEET-UG) in Kota for over one and a half years and living in a PG room in Pratap Nagar.

He was found hanging from a ceiling fan Tuesday morning by a cousin of his who lives in the same neighbourhood, Circle Inspector at Dadabari police Station Menge Lal Yadav said.

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His body was sent for a postmortem, and the matter is under investigation, with a case lodged under section 194 of BNSS Act, he said.

Head Constable Jitendra said a police team was rushed to the PG in Pratap Nagar after a call about suicide.

Ankush scored around 480 marks in routine tests at his institute and showed no signs of stress over study, an uncle of his told reporters here outside the mortuary.

He also called his father Tuesday around 8 am but did reveal if anything was troubling him, he added.

This is the seventh student suicide this year that took place in the city famous for its being a coaching hub. Six coaching students -- five JEE, one NEET -- killed themselves in January alone.

Seventeen coaching students died by suicide in Kota in 2024.

Medical DIalogues had earlier reported that NEET aspirant Ashfa Sheikh, a native of Gujarat’s Ahmedabad, ended her life by hanging herself in her paying guest room in the Jawahar Nagar area at around 10 am. The 24-year-old woman had taken the medical entrance exam a few times before but could not clear it. She used to take coaching but was currently self-studying.

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