Kota boy who killed self was 'studious, scored high in routine tests'

Kota: The father of 23-year-old NEET aspirant Roshan Sharma from Delhi, who was found dead in the bushes in Landmark City under Kunhadi police station in Kota Thursday morning, said his son was studious and had been scoring 550 to 600 marks in routine tests at the coaching institute.

Roshan, who was to sit for NEET on May 4, had, however, shared with his sister that he wanted one more year to prepare for the exam, said his father, Ranjit Sharma, a carpenter at Tuglakabad in Delhi. Roshan had been preparing for NEET for the last three years, he added. Ranjit, his wife and daughter reached Kota Thursday night to claim the body.

This was the second case of suicide of a student in the coaching city within 48 hours and the twelfth this year. An 18-year-old boy from Chhapra in Bihar, also a NEET aspirant, committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan in his hostel room in Kunhadi police station area of Kota early Tuesday morning.

"It was Roshan's decision to come to Kota to prepare for NEET. He attended a coaching institute for over a year before shifting to another in the city. When I and his mother wife came to Kota on April 22 to take him back home, he refused to come," said Ranjit.

When Roshan's parents reached his room, he had left for somewhere. "When we called him on phone, he asked us to take his belongings, saying he would neither return home nor appear in NEET. He said he would go somewhere else. We returned home with his luggage, hoping he would follow us, but he did not. We continued to call him from time to time and ask him to return," said Ranjit.

Roshan had been living in a hostel room in Corol Park under Borekheda police station of Kota for the past few months. After his body was discovered upon the information from passers-by, the FSL squad suspected it was a suicide by consuming some poisonous substance. No suicide note was recovered with the body. Kunhadi police station circle inspector Arvind Bhardwaj said the body was handed over to the family members after post-mortem Friday and a case was registered under Section 194(A) of BNSS.