Sumit Panchal (20), a resident of Rohtak in Haryana, whose purported suicide death is the seventh such case in Kota since January this year, was supposed to take the NEET-UG exam next month, the police said.
A student from West Bengal has died by suicide in Rajasthan's Kota. This is the 28th suicide this year in the city, a prominent coaching hub for competitive exams that draws students from across the country.
A resident of Mau in Uttar Pradesh, Priyas was a Class 12 student preparing for NEET-UG at a coaching institute here in Kota and living in a hostel in the Vigyan Nagar area here, DSP Dharmveer Singh said. The girl allegedly consumed a poisonous substance in her room on Monday noon. When she started vomiting, other girls in the hostel rushed her to a hospital, the DSP said.