NEET aspirant dies after falling from building in Kota day after appearing in NEET UG 2023

Press Trust of India | May 9, 2023 | 02:55 PM IST | 1 min read

The MBBS aspirant had appeared for NEET UG 2023, at an examination centre in Rajasthan's Jaipur on Sunday and returned to Kota the next day.

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MBBS aspirant dies in Kota, suicide suspected, say police. (Representative image: Freepik)

KOTA: A 22-year-old NEET aspirant from Karnataka's Bengaluru has died after falling from the 10th floor of a multi-storey building at Vigyan Nagar area here, police said on Tuesday and suspect it to be a case of suicide. Mohammed Nasir, died on the spot late on Monday night, police said.

He had appeared for NEET-UG, 2023, at an examination centre in Rajasthan's Jaipur on Sunday and returned to Kota the next day.

He had been preparing for the entrance exam in a coaching institute in Kota for the last one year. Nasir died around 11 pm on Monday, circle inspector at Vigyan Nagar police station Devesh Bhardwaj said.

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Nasir lived with some friends in a flat in the multi-storey building and his flatmates were not present when the incident occurred, he said. The body has been kept at the MBS hospital mortuary and a post-mortem will be conducted after Nasir's parents arrive from Bengaluru, Bhardwaj said.

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