Following massive protests by students, five staffers, including three directors and two security guards, were arrested in connection with the suicide of a Nepali student at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) in Bhubaneswar.
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00:00Meanwhile, the Odisha government has cracked the whip after outrage, Odisha has taken a
00:11suicide probe, 5 arrested, 2 security guards and 3 KIIT directors have also been arrested.
00:17The Odisha government has put KIIT on notice, panel now to probe report of misconduct and
00:23use of force.
00:24All of this viewers, after the suicide of this young girl, the entire campus went into
00:32disarray where strangely the KIIT management decided to crack down on protesting students
00:38who hail from Nepal and at the back of it, now you have action that has been taken by
00:45the Odisha government, stepping in, cracking the whip but all of that also, after the Nepal
00:50government had to step in and give out and send out a missive saying that they are strongly
00:56standing beside the students from their country and will do what it takes to help them.
01:01Now 5 have been arrested including the person, the ex-boyfriend of this young girl who was
01:08held for abetment to suicide, 2 security guards and 3 KIIT directors have also been arrested.
01:16Odisha government has put KIIT on notice and there is now a panel that has been constituted
01:21to report of misconduct and use of force.