Rajasthan: 18-year-old student dies by suicide in Kota, 2nd case this month

Kota:_An 18-year-old student preparing for JEE was found dead in Kota on Monday in what is suspected to be the latest in a spate of suicides in Rajasthan’s coaching hub,This is the second such case in Kota in less than a week. Earlier, a 19-year-old student from Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad preparing for the all-India pre-medical entrance test was found dead in his hotel room in the city on January 23.
The number of suicides last year was the highest since 2015 in Kota when the administration first began compiling records of such deaths.According to the police, the student lived at her family home and was to take her JEE test soon. A note recovered from her room suggests that she was stressed due to her studies.Circle officer DSP Dharmveer Singh said that the student was the eldest of three sisters. Her father is a security guard at a private bank in Kota, he said,