KIIT founder Achyuta Samanta and top officials testified before a government committee investigating a Nepalese student's alleged suicide and related violence. The incident sparked political uproar, with demands for a judicial inquiry.

Senior officials of KIIT, including its founder Achyuta Samanta, on February 21 appeared before the State government’s high-level committee investigating the alleged suicide of a Nepalese student and subsequent attack on students from the neighbouring country.

Following the death of a 20-year-old Nepali student at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) University in Odisha, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal on Friday expressed deep sorrow and extended condolences.