NEET 2024 NEET Aspirant Found Dead in Kota Hostel: Suspected Foul Play”

Neet 2024 A 20-year-old NEET aspirant was reportedly found dead in his hostel room in Kunhari area of the city. The parents of the deceased, Sumit Panchal, suspected foul play and demanded the registration of a murder case against unidentified persons. Sumit hailed from Haryana’s Rohtak and had been preparing for NEET at a coaching institute in Kota for over a year. This is the seventh case of suspected suicide by a NEET 2024 or JEE aspirant in this coaching hub so far this year, according to the police.

Sumit’s body was found hanging from the ceiling fan of his room at the hostel in Landmark City under the Kunhari police station limits on Sunday night. He was supposed to take the NEET-UG exam next month. No suicide note was recovered from the youth’s hostel room and the reason behind his extreme step is yet to be ascertained.

The matter came to light only around 9.30 pm when the warden spotted the body and informed the police. A police team rushed to the spot and recovered the body and shifted it to the mortuary of MBS Hospital for postmortem. On demand of the deceased’s parents, a medical board is being constituted to perform the autopsy.

The wound in his neck is so deep that it couldn’t have been caused by hanging, Sumit’s uncle claimed and demanded autopsy by medical board. In gross violation of safety norms, the hostel room did not have an anti-suicide device installed with the ceiling fan, which could have averted the tragedy.

Sumit’s death is the seventh case of suspected suicide by coaching students in Kota since January this year. Last year, 26 coaching students had taken the extreme step in this coaching hub, the highest ever.