An 18-year-old NEET aspirant from Jammu and Kashmir reportedly hanged herself from the ceiling fan in her paying guest room at Pratap Chouraha in Kota, police said on Monday.
This marks the 15th incident of this nature this year, and the second one this month, reported news agency PTI.
Before taking her life on Sunday evening, the girl, Zeeshan, spoke on the phone with a relative, expressing her thoughts of suicide before the call ended, according to Circle Inspector Ramesh Kavia from the Mahaveer Nagar Police Station.
Burhan, her relative, quickly contacted another student, Mamta, who lived one floor above, urging her to check on Zeeshan, he added, reported PTI.
Mamta hurried to Zeeshan`s room, found it locked from the inside, and yelled for assistance.
A crowd gathered and broke open the door with the help of a grinder they borrowed from some carpenters working nearby, he said.
They found Zeeshan hanging from the ceiling. She was rushed to a hospital, but was declared dead.
According to police, Zeeshan had returned to Kota a month ago, having earlier lived in the city, enrolled at a coaching institute to prepare for the medical entrance exam. This time, she was engaged in self-study and hadn`t enrolled anywhere, reported PTI.
Police said the room was not equipped with the `anti-hanging device`, a spring-like device installed in the fan rod that makes the rod disengage from the fan with the weight.
Another NEET aspirant allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from an iron grille of her room in Parshavnath area ahead of the national medical entrance exam scheduled on Sunday, police said.
While refusing to disclose the name of the student, the circle inspector at Kunhadi police station, Arvind Bhardwaj, told PTI that the girl was under 18 years of age and hailed from Sheopur in Madhya Pradesh.
She had been living with her parents in Kota for the past several years and preparing for NEET-UG at a coaching institute.
The student was scheduled to take the NEET-UG exam that will be held at various centres across the country on Sunday.
However, on Saturday evening, she used her scarf to hang herself from an iron grille in her room on Saturday evening
The family members were reportedly at home at the time of the incident and found her dead around 9 pm, reported PTI.
No suicide note was recovered from her room, he said, adding the body has been sent for postmortem.
(With PTI inputs)