BTech student Prakriti Lamsal died by suicide, authorities said. Nepali students assembled last night and staged a protest, after which they claimed they were evicted from the campus. Police have lodged a case on the allegation that a male student abetted her suicide, said Pinak Mishra, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Bhubaneswar. Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli said his government is working on this issue through diplomatic channels and is in touch with the authorities. Meanwhile, students from other states have claimed that the university’s private security guards were not allowing them to leave the hostel. A video has also gone viral showing the students clashing with the guards, but it could not be verified. The KIIT said the campus situation is now calm, and appealed to all students from Nepal to \”return to the campus and resume the academic activities\” The university has also sealed the dead student’s room and kept her body in the mortuary to hand over to her parents.
