India, April 22 -- An 18-year-old student preparing for the National Entrance Eligibility Test (NEET) for admission to undergraduate engineering courses was found dead in his hostel room in Kota on Tuesday, taking the number of such cases to 12 in Rajasthan's coaching hub this year. Last year, 20 students died by suicide there.

Arvind Singh Bharadwaj, a local police officer, said the 18-year-old was from Bihar's Chhapra and arrived in Kota a year ago. "On Tuesday morning, he hung himself from the ceiling fan of his hostel room," said Bharadwaj. He added a note recovered from his hostel room said neither NEET pressure nor his family should be held responsible. Bharadwaj said the rest of the details cannot be shared without his family's pe...