According to officials, the deceased, S Jegadeeswaran (19) was an aspirant, and hanged self a day earlier after having flunked the NEET examination twice.
A day after his 19-year-old son died by suicide after failing to clear the NEET medical entrance exam, the boy's father was found dead at his home in Tamil Nadu's Chennai, the police said.
Two days after Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi expressed his mind against the NEET exemption bill passed in the state assembly, a medical aspirant and his father died by suicide. The twin suicides have reignited the debate against the National Entrance cum Eligibility Test (NEET) and Tamil Nadu’s strong opposition to competitive exams for medical admission.
'The number of suicide cases of students of all these institutions and various coaching centres including coaching centres for NEET across the country are not maintained,' Sarkar said.