In yet such incident emerging from Rajasthan's Kota, a 17-year-old medical aspirant allegedly hanged himself from an iron rod in his hostel room in the city's Jawahar Nagar area on Tuesday. As per the police, this was the ninth case of suspected suicide by a coaching student in Kota since January 2025. The deceased has been identified as Harshraj Shankar, who was a native of Bihar's Nalanda district. He had been preparing for the medical entrance exam in a coaching institute here since April last year, police said.