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Kota: On Friday, police said that a final year BTech 27-year-old student allegedly died by suicide in his paying guest room in Kota, Rajasthan. They further said that the student was identified as Noor Mohammed. He (27) took the extreme step sometime on Wednesday but his body was recovered from his room in Vigyan Nagar area on Thursday night.
They added that no suicide note was recovered. According to the information received by police this is the third suicide reported from Kota in two weeks. Mohammed, a native of Gonda, Uttar Pradesh, was pursuing a B.Tech degree from SRM University, Chennai and was staying as a paying guest.
Giving details about this incident, Dharamveer Singh, DSP (Vigyan Nagar) said Mohammed studied at coaching institutes in Kota to prepare for the entrance exam from 2016 to 2019 and after taking admission in SRM University, he used to take online classes from his Kota PG.
Official said that he probably died on Wednesday. A mess boy noticed an untouched tiffin box outside Mohammed’s room on Thursday evening and informed the PG owner. Singh said that the police was informed about the incident at around 8 pm on Thursday night.
He said the body has been kept in the mortuary for post-mortem and the student’s family has been informed and they are on their way to Kota. So far this year, there have been three suicides in Kota. On January 29, 18-year-old Niharika Singh, who was preparing for JEE, reportedly died at her home in this coaching hub, and left a suicide note expressing regret to her parents.
19-year-old Mohammad Zaid was found dead in his hostel room in Kota, on January 23. He came to the city from Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh a year ago to prepare for the medical entrance exam NEET. No suicide note was found in that case. Last year, 26 students allegedly died by suicide in Kota, where children from across the country come to prepare for competitive exams like the National Entrance Examination (JEE) for admission to top engineering colleges.
