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The Times of India
The Times of India
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Syed Intishab Ali | TNN

Rajasthan: 3 borewells shut down after deaths of NEET aspirant due to Hepatitis in Kota

JAIPUR: Three borewells which were being used for supplying water for drinking purposes at a coaching institute in Jawahar Nagar, where a NEET aspirant who was studying at the same coaching centre had allegedly died of hepatic encephalopathy, have been closed, after health department officials allegedly found that the water supplied to the coaching institute was contaminated.

"The tankers were used for supplying water from borewells to the coaching institute and the students were drinking the same water. It has been found that the water was contaminated, following which all the three borewells which were supplying water to the institute were contaminated," said Dr Jagdish Soni, Kota chief medical and health officer (CMHO).

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