A 16-year-old IIT JEE aspirant from Bihar allegedly dedicated suicide in Rajasthan’s Kota. The boy was discovered hanging from the ceiling fan in his hostel room on Friday. As per the police, it’s suspected to be a suicide case. However, no suicide observe is recovered. Investigation is ongoing and the rationale behind this excessive step by the boy continues to be unknown. This is the seventeenth suicide case of teaching college students in Kota. Last 12 months, 26 circumstances of suicide by teaching college students have been logged within the metropolis.
Case registered underneath Vigyan Nagar police station
The lifeless physique of the boy was discovered hanging in his hostel room within the Vigyan Nagar police station space of Kota metropolis. Circle Inspector on the Vigyan Nagar police station Mukesh Meena instructed the media that the deceased scholar was finding out in school eleventh and hailed from the Vaishali district in Bihar.
Anti-hanging machine could not forestall the suicide
The boy was discovered hanging from the ceiling fan regardless of the room being outfitted with anti-hanging machine meant to stop suicide. Considering the rise in scholar suicide circumstances final 12 months, the district administration issued an order requiring all hostels and paying visitor (PG) lodging to put in spring-loaded followers in rooms.
seventeenth suicide case this 12 months
Despite a number of measures of the Kota district administration and Rajasthan authorities, the scholar suicide circumstances within the teaching hub of India, Kota, pertain. In September final 12 months, Rajasthan authorities launched a number of precautionary measures to stop suicides, together with obligatory screening checks, alphabetical sorting of scholars into sections as an alternative of ranking-based sorting, and admission just for college students solely above class ninth.
The central authorities additionally took cognisance of the state of affairs and the Union training minister in January issued pointers for teaching centres, limiting enrolment to college students over 16 and imposing a Rs 1,00,000 tremendous for violations.
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(With PTI inputs)
