Kota (Rajasthan) : Hours after two NEET aspirants allegedly died by suicide in two separate incidents in Rajasthan's Kota on Sunday, taking the total toll to 22 this year, the district administration has issued directions staying tests and examinations at coaching centres for two months with immediate effect. Avishkar Shambaji Kasle (17), jumped from the sixth floor of his coaching institute's building in Jawahar Nagar at around 3.15 pm, minutes after walking out of a room on the third floor of the institute after taking a test, police said.
The Kota district administration, citing the need for mental support, stayed the tests and examinations for two months. In order to provide mental support and security to the studying/residential students, the examinations, being conducted from time to time, in all coaching institutes operating in Kota, have been stayed with immediate effect for the next two months," read an official release by the district administration on Sunday.
The institute's staff rushed Kasle to a hospital but he succumbed on the way, Vigyan Nagar Circle Officer (CO) Dharmveer Singh said. Four hours after Kasle's death, 18-year-old Adarsh Raj, who was also preparing for the competitive exam, hanged himself in his rented flat in under Kunhadi police station area at around 7 pm, police said.
When the teen's sister and cousin brother reached the flat around 7.30, they broke open his room, which was locked from the inside, and found Raj hanging from the ceiling, Circle Officer (Kunhadi) KS Rathore said. Raj was reportedly breathing when he was taken down but succumbed on the way to hospital, he said.
A native of Maharashtra's Latur district and a Class 12 student, Kasle was preparing for NEET UG in the city for three years and was living in a rented room in the Talwandi area with his maternal grandparents, CO Singh said, adding that his parents are government school teachers in Maharashtra. Raj, a native of Bihar's Rohtas district, had been preparing for NEET UG in a coaching institute in Kota for a year and was living in a rented 2BHK flat with his sister and cousin brother, who are also preparing for competitive exams, police said.
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According to police, no suicide notes were recovered from either of the students' rooms. Kasle took a routine test in the noon session on the third floor of the coaching institute and jumped from the sixth floor of the building -- onto around 72 feet down in the backyard -- immediately after giving the test, Vigyan Nagar CO said. (PTI)
