23-year-old NEET aspirant from Delhi found dead in Kota, suicide suspected  

The body of a 23-year-old NEET aspirant from Delhi was found near a railway track here on Thursday, the police said.

Citing an initial investigation, the police said the youth died by suicide by consuming poison. They said no suicide note was found at the spot in the Landmark City area.

This is the second case of an alleged suicide by a NEET aspirant within 48 hours in the coaching hub and the 12 since January.

The body of Roshan Sharma, a resident of Tughlakabad in Delhi, was retrieved from bushes, said Inspector Arvind Bhardwaj. The body was spotted by some passersby who informed the police.

The police used his mobile to contact his parents. They had last spoken to Sharma on Wednesday night, an officer said.

According to the family members, Sharma told them that he would neither take the NEET exam nor return to Delhi and would consume poison to end his life, the officer said.

He was to take the NEET exam next month.

Sharma’s parents said he was staying in a hostel in Corol Park in Borekhda area — around 10 km from where his body was found.

The parents told police that they had gone to Kota a few days ago to bring Sharma back home, but he refused, following which, they took away his clothes and belongings.

The body has been kept in the mortuary of the MBS Hospital here, and the post-mortem would be conducted after the arrival of his parents from Delhi, the police said.

On Tuesday, an 18-year-old boy from Chhapra in Bihar allegedly died by suicide by hanging himself in his hostel room on Tuesday.

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