17-Year-Old IIT Aspirant Commits Suicide in Kota

This is the 10th case this year.

This is the fifth suicide by a student this year in Kota (Photo: iStockphoto)

• 17-year-old IIT aspirant Nirmal Yogi, studying at a coaching institute in Kota, committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan in his rented room in Kota. This becomes the 10th such incident in the coaching hub this year.
  

• Nirmal hung himself using a towel, police said. The body was sent to a hospital for postmortem Tuesday morning. No suicide note was left behind. A probe has been launched to find the reason for his suicide.
  

• Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh recently said a body has been formed to regulate and monitor these coaching institutes.
  

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(With inputs from PTI)