Belagavi: In an incident of alleged physical assault by police personnel, a rider and his mother were stopped and hit by policemen in Ankali village of Chikkodi taluk for not wearing helmets.

The injured Hrishikesh Limbigidad and his mother Susheela were traveling on the motorbike from Sangli in Maharashtra to Chikkodi, when they were intercepted by the police and questioned for not wearing helmets while riding. The policemen, who reportedly started assaulting Limbigidad on the spot, also attacked Susheela when she tried to intervene. The policemen are learned to have kicked Susheela and beat Limbigidad with their lathi after ripping off his shirt.

As Limbigidad reportedly collapsed out of a rise in blood pressure due to fear, the policemen clothed him in a new T-shirt and took him to hospital.

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Jaipur (PTI): A student preparing for the NEET examination allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in a rented room in Rajasthan's Sikar on Friday, police said.

According to the police, the student allegedly hanged himself from a ceiling fan using his sister's scarf while one sister was attending coaching classes and the other was in the bathroom.

He had appeared in the NEET UG exam 2026, which was cancelled due to paper leak, they said.

Udyog Nagar SHO Rajesh Kumar said that the deceased, identified as Pradeep Meghwal, was a resident of Kanika ki Dhani village in Jhunjhunu's Gudha Gaudji area.

He had been living in a rented room in Sikar's Jaldhari Nagar area with his two sisters while preparing for NEET over the last three years.

His elder sister later found him hanging and informed the landlord and police after bringing him down, officials said.

The SHO said the body was kept at SK Hospital mortuary, and a postmortem had not been conducted.

The student's father, Rajesh Kumar Meghwal, told police that Pradeep's NEET examination had gone well and the family was expecting him to score around 650 marks.

Former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot expressed grief over the incident and linked it to anxiety among students after reports of irregularities and paper leaks in NEET 2026.

Pilot said repeated paper leak incidents and cancellation of examinations were affecting students' mental health and demanded a time-bound investigation and strict action against those responsible.