17-year-old NEET aspirant from UP hangs self in Kota hostel room

KOTA: A 17-year-old NEET aspirant ended his life by hanging himself in his hostel room in Landmark City apartment block under Kunhari police station of Kota on Thursday, taking the number of suicides by coaching institute students here to four this year.
The body of Abhishek Yadav, a resident of Badaun district in Uttar Pradesh, was recovered from the hostel room on Thursday night. It was handed over to his family members after post-mortem on Friday morning. A suicide note recovered from his room suggested he was under study pressure. His father, who reached Kota on Friday morning, held the coaching institute responsible for the suicide and blamed it on the study pressure being mounted on students.
Police said Yadav, who had been living in Kota for around two years and was preparing for NEET at a coaching institute, had first tried to hang himself from the ceiling fan but failed as the fan was equipped with an anti-suicide device. After the fan fell on the floor, he hanged himself from an iron angle in the room and ended life.
Yadav was last seen outside his hostel room on Wednesday evening. It is believed he hanged himself sometime on Wednesday night or early Thursday morning as the body was over 12-15 hours old, said police. “In the suicide note, the deceased student sought apologies from his parents, elder sister and friends, and said he was taking his life by his own will, and no one was responsible for it. He wrote that he was in trouble. It seemed he was under study pressure,” said circle inspector Ganga Sahay Sharma of Kunhari police station.
Yadav was reportedly absent from his coaching classes for a few days, and study stress due to distractions from studies is believed to be the reason behind the extreme step he took, added Sharma.
Police registered a case under Section 174 of CrPC and began further investigation to ascertain the reason behind the suicide. Aaram Singh, Yadav’s father, said, “Why are such circumstances in place that students are committing suicides in Kota? Why is there a system that mounts pressure on the students? The governments of Rajasthan, UP and the Centre should think over it and take measures”.