Overview

• Odisha Crime Branch charged ABVP state joint secretary Subhra Sambit Nayak and student leader Jyoti Prakash Biswal with abetment to suicide and criminal conspiracy and secured 15-day judicial remand for both.
• Police retrieved CCTV footage capturing the victim cycling toward a petrol pump hours before her self-immolation and are cross-referencing transaction and surveillance records to clarify who supplied the fuel.
• Forensic experts are analyzing digital data and physical evidence alongside eyewitness testimony as investigators probe allegations that the two students instigated the self-immolation and fabricated rescue claims.
• Earlier this month, Assistant Professor Samir Kumar Sahu and suspended principal Dilip Ghosh were arrested on abetment to suicide charges after the student’s sexual harassment complaint was allegedly ignored.
• The case has fuelled statewide demands from student groups and civil society for stronger campus harassment redressal mechanisms and enhanced mental health support.