Bhubaneswar: Even as the investigations by the high-level team headed by Additional Chief Secretary Home Satyabrata Sahu and Commissionerate of Police continued in to the death of a third-year Nepali girl student and subsequent unrest in the campus of KIIT& KISS university campus, normalcy is slowly returning in the campus with students turning up for classes in large numbers on Thursday amid tight security in the campus.
Though classes at the institute resumed Monday, very few students had attended. However, on Thursday, students in large numbers attended classes, as police personnel kept a tight vigil on the campus.
However, the Nepalese students who were asked to leave the campus are yet to return.
Commissioner of Police S Dev Datta Singh said it has obtained a three-day remand of a 21-year-old engineering student, who was arrested on charge of abetting the woman’s suicide.
“The accused has been brought on a three-day remand during which the police will further interrogate him and verify certain facts,” Singh said and added that police have seized mobile phones and laptops of both the deceased woman and the accused, and sent those to a forensic lab.
The arrested student was nabbed at the Biju Patnaik International Airport here while attempting to flee the city on Sunday evening, hours after the woman’s death. He has been accused of blackmailing and verbally abusing her.
Police sources also said the accused will undergo a voice spectrography test to ascertain facts. The test is a non-invasive procedure that uses a spectrogram to analyse the sound waves of a person’s voice, they said.
The unrest on the KIIT campus began on Sunday, after 20-year-old Prakriti Lamsal died allegedly by hanging herself. Around 1,000 Nepalese students of the private institute were reportedly issued suspension notices and asked to leave the campus by its authorities on Monday, following protests after her death.
