Kota:
A day after a NEET aspirant died, allegedly after consuming poison, police have charged her coaching center with abetment to suicide after the girl’s father alleged that the institute was “harassing” her, officials said.
Priyam Singh, the 16-year-old student from Mau district of Uttar Pradesh, died on Monday after allegedly consuming pesticides at this coaching centre, police said.
Priyam’s father Suryaprakash Singh, who came to Kota on Tuesday to claim the body after the autopsy, held the coaching institute responsible for the mounting pressure to send his daughter to college and filed a complaint against it, she added.
Based on the complaint, a case of abetment to suicide under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code has been filed against the institute, based in Vigyan Nagar, DSP Dharmveer Singh said.
Asked about alleged WhatsApp messages that have surfaced suggesting that a love affair was the cause of the suspected suicide, the DSP said the police have not seen any such messages, adding that all angles are being investigated.
Speaking to reporters outside the mortuary, Suryaprakash said the institute’s teachers were “harassing” his daughter and “ramping up pressure by saying she was behind in studies and would fail.”
The father also alleged that the coaching institute staff followed him to his hotel room in Kota and threatened him on the phone not to approach the Kota government, police said.
Suryaprakash has provided the phone number from where he received the call to the district administration and police, they added.
Priyam was a class 12 student who had been preparing for NEET-UG for a year and a half at the coaching institute in Vigyan Nagar. She moved to a flat on Road Number 1 in Vigyan Nagar in June, the DSP said.
Kota City ASP Bhagwat Singh Hingad said the girl vomited outside the coaching institute, from where other students and staff rushed her to a hospital, where she succumbed to death during treatment on Monday evening. No suicide note was recovered from the girl’s room and an investigation is underway into her parents’ allegations against the institute and how the girl obtained the pesticide, the ASP added.
The body was handed over to the girl’s family members after an autopsy on Tuesday afternoon, the DSP said.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
