Body of JEE aspirant missing for 9 days found in Rajasthan’s Kota, police suspect suicide

Police said it was a case of suicide, which takes the number of such incidents of students of various coaching centres taking the extreme step to four this year in Kota. Besides, two B.Tech students from different universities committed suicide earlier this month.

Kota is known for a number of coaching centres preparing students for competitive exams.

Meanwhile, a 17-year-old Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) aspirant has been missing from a Kota hostel room for a week now and an intensive search operation is underway to trace the individual.

The body of the JEE aspirant, from Madhya Pradesh, was found from the forest near the Garadiya Mahadev temple late on Monday evening, Superintendent of Police (Kota City) Amrita Duhan told reporters.

The post-mortem examination was conducted on Monday night after obtaining the district collector’s permission and the body handed over to the deceased’s family members, the SP said.

One more JEE aspirant is still missing and specials teams have been formed to trace the 17-year-old, the officer added.

It is a case of suspected suicide and police have lodged a case under section 174 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) for investigation, Circle Inspector at the Jawahar Nagar police station Vasudev Singh said.

The first individual left the hostel room in Mahaveer Nagar-1, located within the Jawahar Nagar police station limits, for a routine test at around 12 noon on February 11. The aspirant was last seen in CCTV footage hiring a taxi, reaching the Garadiya Mahadev temple forest and entering the forest. The bag, mobile phone, a power bank, the room keys and some other belongings were found at a distance of around 200 metres from the temple on February 12.

Around 60-70 police personnel, besides the members of the Kota Municipal Corporation squad and 40-50 family members of the deceased, eventually spotted the body stuck between two trees on a rock at a distance of around a kilometre and a half from the spot where the aspirant’s belongings were found, police said.

The second aspirant, from Uttar Pradesh, left the hostel room for a test on February 13. The individual neither returned to the room nor responded to parents’ phone calls, following which the family members arrived in Kota and got a missing report lodged at the Jawahar Nagar police station.

According to the family members, the 17-year-old has been preparing for the IIT-JEE in Kota for two years. The aspirant took the recent JEE-Mains exam and scored only 13 percentile. The individual was last seen in CCTV footage at the Kota railway station with a bag in hand, police said.

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