A 17-year-old boy from Maharashtra's Latur who ended his life after jumping off the sixth floor of a coaching institute's building in Kota in Rajasthan was a sincere and clever student and had gone there for NEET coaching following in the footsteps of his brother, said his kin and friends on Monday.

Avishkar Kasle died at 3:15 pm in Kota's Jawahar Nagar area on Sunday, minutes after taking a mock National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) paper, police in the north western state had said.