Manish Prajapat (17), a Class 12 student from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh, 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 students in Kota this month and the 19th this year. Manish had dinner at the hostel and returned to his room around 7pm. His father, who was headed home by train, called him up several times.
‘Stress suspected cause of suicide’
When the teen did not respond, his father asked the hostel caretaker to check on him. The caretaker found him hanging after he looked through the window and informed the police. No suicide note was recovered from Manish’s room, Jawahar Nagar police station circle inspector Shivraj Singh told TOI.
Police suspect stress might have prompted the boy to take his life as he was reportedly not good in studies and was scoring low marks in routine tests at the institute and was also irregular to the coaching classes.
A NEET aspirant killed himself earlier this month.
