IIT aspirant commits suicide in Kota, 12th death this year - The Hindu

KOTA, July 24, 2016

IIT aspirant commits suicide in Kota, 12th death this year

A 17-year-old IIT aspirant from Bihar allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan of his hostel room in Indira Vihar area of the city, police said on Saturday.

Prince Kumar Singh, a resident of Motihari district of Bihar who had arrived at Kota a month ago, is the twelfth student to have died in the coaching hub this year.

He was preparing for an engineering entrance exam at a coaching institute here, said Radha Kishan, ASI at Vigyannagar police station.

No suicide note was found in his room. The body has been sent for post-mortem, he said.

Deceased from Bihar

The deceased boy was also reported to have spoken on phone to his parents in Bihar just minutes before he took the extreme step on Friday night, the ASI added.

Police have lodged a case under Section 174 of CrPC in this connection.

His attendance record and performance in studies have been sought from the coaching institute’s management while his hostel mates are being questioned to ascertain the exact reason behind the step, Mr Kishan said.

This is the second suicide by a coaching student from Bihar.

On July 5, a medical aspirant identified as Nikhil Kumar (20), from Bhagalpur, Bihar was found hanging in his hostel room in Kunhadi police station area of the city.

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Two more students commit suicide in Kota - Tribune India

Posted at: Jul 6, 2016, 6:50 PM; last updated: Jul 6, 2016, 8:23 PM (IST)

Two more students commit suicide in Kota

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Kota, July 6

One AIPMT coaching student and another school boy allegedly committed suicide in two separate incidents in Kota’s Kunhadi Thana area on Tuesday.

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Nineteen-year-old Nikhil Nayan Kumar of Bhagalpur, who was taking AIPMT classes and residing in a hostel of Allen coaching Institute, was found hanging in the bathroom of his hostel on Tuesday night. The reason of his suicide was yet to be ascertained. The body has been kept in a mortuary and his parents have been called from Bihar, the police said.

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In another incident, a local class 10 student, Lekhraj, ended his life on the rail tracks. He was missing from home since July 4 and was found dead on Tuesday evening. 

Kota has been in the news many times in the past for students’ suicides. In May this year a 17-year-old in her suicide note had urged the government to shut down coaching institutes in Kota.

She had jumped to her death from the fifth floor of her residence here, despite having cracked the IIT-JEE mains.

In a line from her note, she said the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry should shut down the coaching institutes, complaining that studies in these centres subjected the students to unbearable stress and depression.

Kota claims another victim: Engineering student commits suicide - First Post

Kota claims another victim: Engineering student commits suicide

FP Staff  Jul 6, 2016 17:12 IST

An engineering student in Kota committed suicide late Tuesday night, by jumping from his hostel building, reported News18. 

The student, identified only as Nikhil, hailed from Bhagalpur in Bihar. He was a student at Allen institute.

This is not the first time a student has committed suicide in Kota, the hub of coaching institutes who train youngsters for IIT and medical examinations.

According to NDTV, in May, 17-year-old Keshav Meena, hanged himself after studying for three years and appearing for his medical entrance exam. In the same month, a BTech final year student committed suicide by ingesting poison.

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Nirmal Yogi, a 17-year-old IIT aspirant, committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan using a towel in his rented room in Mahaveer Nagar area.

On 28 April, Kirti, a 17-year-old student who had been studying for the IIT-JEE exams for the past two years in Kota, jumped to her death from the fifth floor of her residence. She wrote in her four-page long suicide note that coaching institutes should be shut down by the government, adding that she wanted to join NASA as a scientist and was not interested in engineering, despite scoring 144 in IIT-JEE mains.

The rising number of suicides has drawn the attention of Rajasthan officials. NDTV reported that Collector Ravi Kumar Surpur wrote a letter addressed to the parents of all students enrolled in coaching classes in Kota to "not to force their expectations and dreams on their children".

Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh had recently said a body should be formed to regulate coaching institutes. "The body should also decide the admission procedure to these institutes and direct them to reduce the pressure on students," he had said.

With inputs from PTI