The founder of KIIT, Achyuta Samanta, and other top officials of the private engineering college were questioned by a government committee about the alleged suicide of a Nepalese girl in her hostel and the assault on students of her country.

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.