BR Kaustubh, a former jockey who later took up an assistant trainer’s license at the Royal Western India Turf Club (RWITC), committed suicide in Benares, UP on Monday. He was 45.

Born in 1972, Kaustubh was granted jockeys’ licence by RWITC in 1995, when he was 23. As jockey, he rode mainly for trainer Hormuz Antia.