Why AIPMT aspirant at Kota commits Suicide?

17 year old Sarthak Yadav, resident of Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, landed up in Kota a month ago for AIPMT 2015 coaching. He was staying in a room at his nanaji’s house in Sector 4 of Talwandi in the Jhawarnagar area of Kota. Unable to take the study pressure, he hanged himself on Sunday morning.

Four days earlier, an 18 year old girl from Jharkhand had also hung herself in her room at a girls’ hostel in Kota. She was also her to prepare for the medical entrance exam. Even though the girl had not left a suicide note, police investigations found that the burden of studies had pushed her to depression too.

More than 1.5 lakh students are at Kota right now attending AIPMT, AIEEE and IIT JEE coaching at various coaching institutes. These back-to-back incidents of student suicides have triggered off ‘red warning alarms’ in the minds of parents across India who send their children to Kota for entrance exam coaching.

Renowned coaching institutes are already arranging sessions for aspirants to help them de-stress, learn time management skills and help them manage their studies better. Apparently, it is not being enough for students who are unable to take the pressure of clearing the exam and become a doctor.

Sarthak’s body has been sent for the post-mortem and his parents have reached Kota to receive his body. A case under section 174 of CrPC has been lodged in the case which empowers the police too inquire and report on suicides or accidental deaths.