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 be aware 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 yr, 26 instances of suicide by teaching college students had been logged within the metropolis.
Case registered below 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 advised the media that the deceased pupil was learning at school eleventh and hailed from the Vaishali district in Bihar.
Anti-hanging system could not forestall the suicide
The boy was discovered hanging from the ceiling fan regardless of the room being geared up with anti-hanging system meant to stop suicide. Considering the rise in pupil suicide instances final yr, 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 yr
Despite a number of measures of the Kota district administration and Rajasthan authorities, the scholar suicide instances within the teaching hub of India, Kota, pertain. In September final yr, Rajasthan authorities launched a number of precautionary measures to stop suicides, together with obligatory screening assessments, alphabetical sorting of scholars into sections as a substitute 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 schooling minister in January issued pointers for teaching centres, limiting enrolment to college students over 16 and imposing a Rs 1,00,000 high-quality for violations.
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(With PTI inputs)
