Nepali students of KIIT University (Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology) hostel in Odisha's Bhubaneswar were allegedly forced to vacate their hostel rooms after a B.Tech third-year girl student from Nepal was found dead in a hostel on Sunday, February 16. As per a notice issued by the University, the institute is hence closed sine die for all international students from Nepal and they are directed to vacate the university campus immediately today on 17th February, reported the news agency ANI.
a B-Tech girl student of a private engineering college was allegedly found dead in her hostel. The deceased was identified as Prakriti Lamsal. KIIT, in a statement, said: "A Nepali student studying in the third year of B-Tech committed suicide in the hostel yesterday. It is suspected that the student was in a love affair with another student studying at KIIT. It is suspected that the student may have committed suicide due to some reason."
After the student's death, the protest erupted on the campus by the Nepali students, due to which the university asked students to vacate their campus immediately.
A student, Anil Prasad Yadav from Nepal, said we were asked to leave the hostel within an hour after sitting on a dharna in protest of a girl's death. "We were pushed out of the hostel today. A girl from Nepal was found dead yesterday. We went to International Office to find out more details about this but we could not find anything. We were there overnight, sitting on a dharna. We were sent back to hostel from there. We were finally told to pack up and leave within an hour. We have nothing with us. We don't know how we will go. We have not even had food...We are trying to get a ticket."
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Another KIIT student said were protesting for the deceased girl. "We were protesting for the (deceased) girl. We don't know what their intentions are but we were forcibly made to vacate the hostel," Rajan Gupta said.
"There is no fixed schedule of the train, I have no money. We have not even had food. We are helpless...We received a notice that all students from Nepal are being suspended, and they have to vacate the hostel at the earliest. The staff members entered the hostel, made us vacate and even hit those who were not vacating quickly," he added.