Odisha Police held 5 staff members of the KIIT University, including two security personnel, in connection with the alleged suicide of Prakriti Lamsal, a Nepali student. The arrest was done after hundreds of KIIT students hit the streets in demand of a fast-track investigation,

The Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) in Bhubaneswar saw massive protests on Monday following the alleged suicide of a student from Nepal inside the university hostel. Prakriti Lamsal,

Bhubaneswar: Police Monday arrested Advik Srivastava, the “ex-boyfriend” of Nepali student Prakriti Lamsal who was found dead Sunday evening in the hostel campus of KIIT University in Bhubaneswar. A police official said,

Security measures have been strengthened at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) in Bhubaneswar following the suicide of a Nepali student. Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Police Commissioner Suresh Dev Datta Singh has confirmed that the student had committed suicide after facing harassment by a third-year Mechanical

Cuttack Police Commissioner Suresh Dev Datta Singh said that normalcy has persisted in the KIIT college campus as classes continue, while also appealing to the Nepali students who had left the campus to come back.

The death of a Nepalese student at Odisha’s KIIT University has prompted a high-level investigation. The university initially asked Nepalese students to leave but later apologized and revoked the order amid mounting scrutiny.

Police arrested five people, including the university’s director general and director of administration, in this connection, who were released later in the day