A medical aspirant from Kota, Gujarat, and a native of Assam, taking coaching for JEE, committed suicide by hanging themselves in Kota within two hours on Wednesday. With their deaths, the coaching hub has seen six such cases in the first 22 days of the year.
Police said that NEET aspirant Ashfa Sheikh, a native of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, ended her life by hanging herself in her paying guest room in Jawahar Nagar area at around 10 am.
The 24-year-old woman had appeared for the medical entrance exam several times before, but could not clear it. Jawahar Nagar circle inspector Ramlaxman said, she used to take coaching but was currently doing self-study.
He said no suicide note has been recovered from his room and the reason behind the extreme step is yet to be known.
Jawahar Nagar police was still investigating Sheikh’s case when just two hours later, Mahavir Nagar police received information about the suicide of another student.
Around noon, an 18-year-old JEE aspirant from Guwahati in Assam committed suicide by hanging himself with an iron angle in his hostel room in Mahavir Nagar area, police said.
As per the guidelines of the district administration, the hostel authority installed an ‘anti-suicide’ device in the rooms. However, the boy committed suicide by hanging himself with an iron angle, the officer said.
The boy was scheduled to appear for the JEE-Mains exam next week and his mother was going to Kota to take care of him, but the boy took the extreme step just hours before she reached there, the inspector said.
He told that no suicide note has been recovered from his hostel room.
His mother is devastated. The police are waiting for the boy’s uncle to come here from Delhi and then the post-mortem will be conducted, the officer said.
Both the bodies have been kept in the mortuary.
Earlier, four JEE aspirants had committed suicide in Kota.
On January 18, 16-year-old Manan Jain hanged himself at his parents’ house in Bundi, Kota. On January 16, Abhijit Giri from Odisha committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan in his hostel room in Ambedkar Colony.
On January 8, 20-year-old Abhishek, a native of Madhya Pradesh, committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan in his PG room. On January 7, Neeraj from Haryana hanged himself from the hook of the ceiling fan in his hostel room. P
The city, a major hub for coaching institutes, saw 17 such cases in 2024.
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