Suicide of a Female student in hostel of KIIT University on 16 th Feb 2025 led more than 500 Nepali students leave the premises who were protesting for justice.
Prakriti Lamsal, who was studying in third year BTech was found dead on Sunday evening in her college Hostel. On Monday Kalinga Institute Of Industrial Technology(KIIT) witnessed a number of students protesting for justice and for transparency investigation. Many students started blaming the university officials for mishandling the situation and covering up. So the students were forced to leave the campus.
Reason Behind:
Prakriti’s friends statement say that she was harassed by her Ex boyfriend, Advik Srivastava, and this might be the reason of suicide. Prakriti’s brother filed a complaint against Advik and now he has been arrested and charged abetment of suicide under section 108 of the (BNS) Bharatiya Nyaya sanhita.
ANI Tweeted a video of the Campus:
#WATCH | Odisha: A https://t.co/jHgpcuG1h1 third-year girl student from Nepal was found dead in KIIT University (Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology) hostel in Bhubaneswar on 16th February. As per a notice issued by the University, the institute is hence closed sine die… pic.twitter.com/vVfgY140up
— ANI (@ANI) February 17, 2025
Large number of students were protesting and chanting the slogan “We Want justice” and blaming mishandling by university officials.
Bhubaneswar DCP Pinak Mishra said: “We have registered a case at Infocity Police Station based on the allegation that a male student abated her suicide. The accused student is in police custody and subjected to interrogation. The police have seized the mobile phone, laptop and other gadgets of the deceased woman. We are undertaking a scientific investigation into the matter.”
A university official stated, “The deceased girl’s room has been sealed by the police, and her body remains in the mortuary until her parents arrive.”
On Monday, two buses carrying Nepali students arrived at Cuttack Railway Station. “We were instructed to vacate our hostel rooms and were transported to the railway station. Our exams were scheduled for February 28…,” a male student shared with reporters at the station.
Students were left anxious and frustrated as many did not have the required tickets to travel back home. Several criticized the university’s sudden move to suspend Nepali students, highlighting the timing as especially unfair, given that they were in the midst of preparing for their upcoming exams in the last week of February.
source: zeenews
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