JEE aspirant from Jharkhand dies after suddenly falling ill at PG room in Kota; family demands impartial probe

Kota (Rajasthan), February16

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A JEE aspirant from Jharkhand was brought dead to a city hospital after he suddenly fell ill while chatting with friends at his paying guest accommodation here, police on Friday said.

The 18-year-old boy, appeared in the JEE-Main exam held recently and scored good marks, DSP Bhawani Singh said.

Parneet Roy, a resident of Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, was chatting with his friends in their room at the PG accommodation facility here late Thursday night when he fell ill, the police officer said.

The friends made him rest for a bit and called his family members but when his condition worsened, they called an ambulance and took him to a nearby hospital where the doctors declared him brought dead, he said.

According to the DSP, the boy was reportedly not suffering from any major disease, however, he had a cold and cough. An autopsy is underway at the city’s MBS hospital and the report is awaited, he said.

The DSP said that the boy’s father, who reached Kota on Friday morning, requested for the delay in the postmortem examination until other members of his family arrived.

The exact reason of the death would be clear only after the autopsy report, he added.

Speaking to the media outside the mortuary on Friday afternoon, the boy’s father, Rajiv Ranjan Roy, said his son was a brilliant student and qualified the recent JEE exam with 98 percentile, and was sure of admission in IIT Mumbai.

He added that his son never suffered from any disease and he would speak to him every day but couldn’t on Thursday. The father said that his son would sometimes speak of pressure of studies at the coaching institute but he was very strong and could have never committed suicide.

He said he has demanded an impartial investigation to ascertain the actual cause of his son’s death. He also added that his son was in Kota for two years and was promoted to the upper batch for outstanding performance in his test at the coaching institute in Class XI.