A 20-year-old student preparing for undergraduate medical entrance test was found hanging from the ceiling fan at her paying guest accommodation in Rajasthan’s coaching hub of Kota late on Wednesday night.This is the eighth suicide this year and the second such incident in the country’s ‘coaching hub’ in two days.
Kamalesh Kumar, a local police officer, said the victim, Soumya, was a resident of Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow and she was found dead when her neighbours noticed she had not picked her lunch and dinner boxes. “Later, they found her body after breaking the door of her room.”
The 20-year-old had enrolled for coaching in Kota over a year back and had shifted to the new accommodation on March 3. Police said no note was recovered in her case. “The body has been sent for an autopsy. A forensic team was also sent. We are probing whether there were any behavioural changes in her,” Kumar said. “We are also investigating why the hostel did not install spring-loaded fans as per the district administration’s guidelines.”
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