JEE student jumps in front of train in Kota, 10 students have committed suicide in 2025
Kota Suicide: Rajasthan Police on Monday said that an 18-year-old engineering examinee committed suicide by jumping in front of a train. The student was to appear for the JEE-Main exam on April 2 but he allegedly committed suicide by jumping in front of a moving train in Kota before the exam. This is the tenth case of suspicious suicide by a coaching student in Kota since January 2025.
One of the students of the Kota city of Rajasthan, preparing for the engineering entrance examination, committed suicide. The incident was exposed on Monday. The student preparing for the examination is from the state of Uttar Pradesh (Kanpur). He had prepared for JEE Main and Advanced for 2 years at Kota.
The Deputy Superintendent of Police (GRP-Kota), Shankar Lal, added that Ujjwal Mishra, a native of Kanpur, had to go to Lucknow, for which he was allotted a center for the purpose of appearing for the entrance examination for engineering.
His father, Deepak Kumar Mishra, had come here on Monday to take Ujjwal and his belongings back to UP, the police said. Ujjwal was a JEE preparatory student at a coaching institute here and was staying at a hostel in Rajiv Gandhi Nagar.