India, Feb. 19 -- The alleged suicide of a 20-year-old Nepali student at Odisha's Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) University threatens to blow up into a diplomatic fallout as Kathmandu said on Wednesday that it may stop issuing NOCs to its students to study in India if the case if not resolved in a "justifiable and legal way".

The deceased, a third-year B.Tech computer science student, allegedly died by suicide due to physical and verbal abuse by a 21-year-old mechanical engineering student from the same institute.

Reports that the college staff forced protesting Nepali students to evacuate the campus without prior information caught the attention of Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli. His government dispatched diploma...