KIIT dying: Nepalese college students nonetheless afraid of returning to campus

A 21-year-old KIIT scholar was earlier arrested on costs of abetting the girl’s suicide.

Sources mentioned the physique of the deceased can be flown to Nepal in the course of the day. Her father Sunil Lamsal and different members of the family have been tenting within the metropolis for the final two days.

Odisha’s larger training minister Suryabanshi Suraj had earlier mentioned that 100 Nepalese college students are at the moment on the campus and almost 800 are in different places.

“They may have gone to Kolkata, Patna or Ranchi. It’s the duty of the KIIT authorities to carry them again. They’re our visitors,” the minister mentioned.

Sources mentioned that a lot of the Nepalese college students have returned to their houses within the Himalayan nation. Nonetheless, neither the state authorities nor the KIIT authorities shared details about the variety of college students who’ve returned to the campus up to now.

The Odisha authorities had on Tuesday, 18 February, launched the motion taken report in reference to the alleged crackdown on college students following the unnatural dying of the coed.