KIIT Student’s Body Sent To Nepal 3 Days After Death
Mool Pravah Akhil Bharat Nepali Ekta Samaj (ABNES) criticized the police's handling of the case, urging further investigation.
Days after a Nepali girl student was found dead inside the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) University premises, her body was sent to Nepal on Wednesday.
This was confirmed by Rekam GC, chief of Bhubaneswar unit of Mool Pravah Akhil Bharat Nepali Ekta Samaj (ABNES).
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News agency ANI, citing Rekam GC, reported that the deceased student’s body was taken to the airport from AIIMS on Wednesday morning.
“The body will be taken from here to Delhi and then to her village (in Nepal) via Gorakhpur. Her last last rites will be performed in her village…KIIT will bear accommodation expenses for the students who were sent to Nepal…Protests are taking place…," ANI quoted Rekam GC as saying.
The organisation also raised concerns over the police’s handling the case, questioning why the incident was initially reported as a suicide and urging the authorities for further probe.
Rekam GC said that the arrested individual should be interrogated to get more clarity on what actually happened.
The ABNES member said, “The Nepal Govt has decided to not provide NOC (to students) for KIIT as long as the situation remains grim…We want action against the guilty and that no innocent is punished.".
Meanwhile, student unions affiliated to various political parties on Tuesday staged protested in front of the Indian embassy in Kathmandu demanding a probe into the student’s death.
After Nepali students studying in the university protest the student’s death, they were allegedly manhandled by the security personnel in a violent crackdown.
On Wednesday, Nepali students expressed fear about returning to KIIT campus due to events following the student’s death.
In the wake of the protests, around 1,000 Nepalese students studying at the university were issued suspension notices and asked to leave the campus immediately on Monday.
However, following the intervention of the Centre and the state government, the universities authorities tendered an apology, requesting the students from the Himalayan nation to return to the campus.
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