KIIT Apologises Amid Row Over Student's Suicide

The Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) University on Tuesday apologised for its staff’s behaviour with Nepali students protesting against the death by suicide of a 20-year female pupil, suspending three employees and removing two security personnel in its attempt to defuse what has become an international incident.

- Debabrata Mohanty

BHUBANESWAR: Police on Tuesday arrested five people, including the university's director general and director administration, but all were released later in the day.

The university said that it has suspended the director of the girls’ hostel, Jayanti Nath, and associate professor of computer science, Manjusha Pandey, over their unsavoury comments on Nepal. The senior administrative officer of the international relations office who allegedly did not take any action against the accused after a complaint by the deceased five weeks ago, was also suspended, the institute said in a statement.