A 16-year-old girl from Mau, UP, who was preparing for NEET in Kota, committed suicide by consuming pesticide. This is the 24th suicide by a coaching student in Kota this year and the second this month.
KOTA: Another student suicide rocked
Kota
on Monday as a 16-year-old girl from
Mau
in UP, preparing for NEET at a coaching institute in the city, died after consuming pesticide. Priyas Singh, a Class 12 student, was staying at a PG in the city’s
Vigyan Nagar
area.
DSP Dharmveer Singh said she consumed pesticide in her room at noon and started vomiting.
Other students rushed her to hospital, but she succumbed in the evening. This is the 24th suicide by a coaching student in Kota this year and the second this month. In August, six students had ended their lives.
As suicides mount, govt under pressure
DSP Dharmveer Singh said no suicide note was recovered from Priyas’s room. Police are conducting a probe to ascertain the reason behind the extreme step taken by the girl.
The mounting cases have put the government under pressure, as the administration has been unable to find a solution despite issuing guidelines for coaching institutes as well as hostels and PG accommodations for implementing a slew of suicide prevention measures.
Last week, the state’s UHD minister
Shanti Dhariwal
faced flak when he claimed that a Jharkhand girl, who had hanged herself from the ceiling fan in her hostel room, had stated in her letter that she was taking her life because of a “love affair”. Police had denied recovering any suicide note from the teen’s room or finding any clue of an affair.
Earlier, chief minister Ashok Gehlot had appealed to parents not to put pressure on their children to crack medical or engineering entrance exams.
