INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KOTA: Yet another teenager, preparing for IIT-JEE in Kota for the past one year, died by suicide just hours after his father left for home
after spending five days with him.Manish Prajapat (17), a class 12 student from Azamgarh in UP, hanged himself with a bedsheet from the
ceiling fan in his hostel room in the city's Mahaveer Nagar area on Thursday night
This is the third suicide by a coaching student in Kota this month and the 19th this year.Manish had dinner at the hostel and returned to
His father, who was headed home by train, called him up several times
When the teen did not respond, his father asked the hostel caretaker to check on him
On peeping through the window, the caretaker found him hanging.No suicide note was recovered from Manish's room, circle inspector at Jawahar
Nagar police station, Shivraj Singh, told TOI on Friday
Police suspect stress might have prompted the boy to take his life, as he was reportedly weak in studies and was scoring low marks in
routine tests at the institute
He was also irregular to the coaching classes.Earlier this month, Manjot Chabra (17), a NEET aspirant from Rampur in UP, and Bhargav Mishra
(17), an IIT-JEE aspirant from West Champaran in Bihar, had died by suicide last week
Manjot's parents, however, had alleged murder.Despite the spate of suicides in Kota, a coaching hub for medical and engineering aspirants,
the Rajasthan government has been mum over the Coaching Institute (Regulation and Control) Bill, raising questions about its intention to
The bill, drafted by a three-member committee, was uploaded on the portal of the higher education department this year, but was not tabled
"The reasons are obvious: strict provisions that were objected to by the multimillion-dollar coaching industry
Even the public representatives from Kota were averse to the idea of regulation," said a source
