A coaching student, Sartaj Singh (18), preparing for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), was discovered deceased in Rajasthan’s Kota. The incident took place in the Udyog Nagar police station area along the Delhi–Mumbai railway line. Sartaj, a resident of Himayun Kheda village in Sirsa district of Haryana, had been residing in Kota for two years to prepare for the engineering entrance exam.
According to the police, the incident occurred around 8:30 pm on Sunday, and the body was later transferred to the post-mortem room at MBS Hospital. Sartaj, a Class 12 student, was staying in a hostel in Rajiv Gandhi Nagar, Kota, with board exams scheduled in April. His two-year JEE coaching course had recently ended.
Family members informed the police that Sartaj was supposed to return home to Haryana on the night of January 25, with his train scheduled for that night. In his final conversation with his family, Sartaj mentioned that the train was delayed by about three hours and that he was going to the railway station to verify the status. However, family members later revealed that the train was not delayed, and Sartaj had used this as an excuse to leave the hostel.
On Monday, Sartaj’s family arrived in Kota, where the post-mortem was conducted in their presence, and the body was subsequently handed over to them. Sartaj, the only son of his father Kuldeep Singh, a farmer in Sirsa district, had no suicide note found. Police officials are investigating all aspects of the case to determine the circumstances surrounding the student’s death.
