Mohammad Naseed died on the spot around 11 pm on Monday night (Representational image/ANI)
Nasid appeared for NEET-UG 2023 at a center in Jaipur on Sunday and returned to Kota the next day. He was preparing for the medical entrance exam for the last one year at a coaching institute in Kota.
A 22-year-old NEET aspirant from Bengaluru died after falling from the 10th floor of a multi-storey building in Rajasthan’s Kota, police said on Tuesday, suspecting it to be a case of suicide.
Mohammad Naseed died on the spot on Monday night around 11 pm. Circle Inspector Devesh Bharadwaj of Vigyan Nagar police station said the body has been kept in the mortuary of MBS hospital and the postmortem will be done after his parents return from Bengaluru.
Nasid appeared for NEET-UG 2023 at a center in Jaipur on Sunday and returned to Kota the next day. He was preparing for the medical entrance exam for the last one year at a coaching institute in Kota.
Bhardwaj said Nasid lived with his friends in the multi-storey building and his roommates were not present at the time of the incident.
His roommate Sujit claimed that he saw the CCTV footage, in which Nasid stormed out of the room in a fit of rage and ended his life by jumping from the railing.
Sujeet said that at the time of the incident, he had gone for a haircut along with Nasid’s other roommates. Nasid tells them that he has a headache and comes back to the flat.
Sujit also said that Nasid was probably upset with his performance in the NEET exam, adding that this was not his first attempt at the entrance exam.
Over 2.25 lakh students had registered in various coaching institutes in Kota in the ongoing academic session to clear the entrance examinations for medical and engineering colleges.
This was the sixth incident of suspected suicide by a coaching student in Kota this year so far, while at least 15 coaching students died by suicide in the city in 2022.
In February, NEET aspirant Ishanshu Bhattacharya (20), a resident of Dhupguri in Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal, died after accidentally falling from the sixth floor of a hostel building in Jawahar Nagar police station area.
In January, a 17-year-old JEE Mains aspirant, a Class 12 student, from Chikhali in Maharashtra was seriously injured after he allegedly fell from the balcony of his hostel.
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