An 18-year-old engineering aspirant, who was to appear for the JEE-Main on April 2, allegedly committed suicide by jumping in front of a moving train in Kota, police said on Monday.<\/p>\n
This is the tenth case of suspected suicide by a coaching student in Kota since January.<\/p>\n
Kanpur native Ujjawal Mishra was supposed to leave for Lucknow where he was allotted a centre to sit for the engineering entrance exam, Deputy Superintendent of Police (GRP-Kota) Shankar Lal.<\/p>\n
His father, Deepak Kumar Mishra, was to reach Kota on Monday to take him and his belongings back to UP, the police said.<\/p>\n
Ujjawal had been preparing for JEE at a coaching institute here and lived in a hostel in Rajiv Gandhi Nagar area, they said.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, the boy left his hostel room around 6.30 pm and reached Kota Railway Station, the DSP said.<\/p>\n
According to the train pilot, when the boy saw the train approaching, he laid down on the tracks and got run over around 7 pm.<\/p>\n
The pilot, who immediately informed the Government Railway Police about the incident, said he was unable to stop the train on time due to high speed.<\/p>\n
No suicide note was recovered from the boy’s possession.<\/p>\n
Ujjawal was an average student. He never shared that he was in trouble nor did he exhibit any sign of distress, said the grief-stricken father outside the mortuary after claiming his son’s body.<\/p>\n
The DSP said on Sunday evening Ujjawal reportedly spoke to his classmate, who lives in a hostel opposite to his, and shared that he was not well prepared to crack the April 2 exam.<\/p>\n
Ujjawal’s father, an agricultural scientist, said that his son had been taking coaching for JEE-Mains and Advance at a coaching institute in Kota for the past two years.<\/p>\n
The engineering aspirant’s mother and younger brother live in Lucknow. The body was handed over to the father after a post-mortem on Monday noon, the police said, adding that a case has been registered in the matter.<\/p>\n
This is the tenth student suicide this year that took place in the city famous for being a coaching hub. Six coaching students — five JEE, one NEET — killed themselves in January alone.<\/p>\n
On March 25, 17-year-old medical aspirant from Bihar Harshraj Shankar allegedly hanged himself from an iron rod he had installed in his hostel room to exercise pull-ups. While the police found no suicide note from the spot, “Sorry” was found written on the book shelf rack.<\/p>\n
Seventeen coaching students died by suicide in Kota in 2024. In 2023, the number stood at 26.<\/p>\n
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