NEET aspirant from Katihar dies by suicide in Kota
Patna: A medical aspirant from Katihar died by suicide in Kota, Rajasthan, on Monday night. The body of the student was found hanging from a fan in a PG room located at Talwandi in Jawahar Nagar police station area.
This is the 13th case of suspected suicide by a coaching student in the country's coaching hub since Jan and the third in April alone.
The deceased was identified as
Tamim Iqbal
(16), who went to Kota 20 days back to prepare for NEET. His exam was in the first week of May.
The victim's uncle, Asif, said: "My nephew was a student of class XI. He took admission in a school at Dariyapur village of Katihar. After this, he went to Kota to prepare for NEET. On the night of April 27, I talked to him. He said that everything is fine. He was studying and asked me to call later. After this, the police informed about his suicide."
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He added, "My brother has asked me to bring his son's body home without getting the postmortem done. If the autopsy is done, he will not be able to see it because he is a cardiac patient."
Iqbal was the youngest among two brothers and a sister.
This is the second case of suicide by a student from Bihar in Kota within a week and the third in the last 35 days.
Earlier, on April 22, a student from Chhapra who was preparing for NEET died by suicide, whereas another aspirant, Harshraj Shankar, a native of Bardiha village under Islampur block of Nalanda district, took the extreme step in the Jawahar Nagar police station area on March 25.
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