Harassment led 20-year-old Nepalese student of KIIT to die by suicide, REVEALS Cuttack Police
Following the death of Prakriti Lamsal at KIIT, Bhubaneswar, police arrested a fellow student for alleged harassment. Protests erupted as students demanded justice, leading the university to close for international students and suspend classes temporarily amid claims of forced evacuations.
There has been a lot of tension at KIIT University in Bhubaneswar after the death of Prakriti Lamsal, a 20-year-old computer science student from Nepal. She was found dead in her hostel room on Sunday evening.
The police have arrested Advik Srivastava, a third-year mechanical engineering student at the same university. He is accused of encouraging her to take her own life and has been sent to jail.
According to the police, their investigation found evidence that she may have been harassed by another student, which could have led to her death.
