India, Feb. 13 -- A 17-year-old boy preparing to sit for the National Entrance Eligibility Test (NEET) was found dead on a railway track in Rajasthan's Kota on Wednesday, police said.

"The body was discovered around 11pm on Wednesday at the Delhi-Mumbai railway track at Dhakania Rail Station. The student, originally from Bihar, was preparing for admission in undergraduate medical courses in Kota. He was staying in a hostel in Vigyan Nagar area for one year," superintendent of police (SP) of Kota Amrita Douhan said.

Douhan added that police is investigating if he died by suicide. "His parents was informed and they are yet to arrive. We are probing what exactly happened to him. Police is checking the CCTV footages and speaking to his frie...