India, March 28 -- More than a month after a 20-year-old computer science girl student from Nepal was found hanging in her hostel room in Bhubaneswar's Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) University, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) held the varsity responsible for the sequence of events that led her to kill herself.

The student was found dead on February 16 several months after she accused her classmate, a 21-year-old mechanical engineering student from Lucknow, of blackmailing her.

The accused Advik Shrivastava, a third-year B.Tech student, was arrested by Bhubaneswar police at the city airport when he was trying to flee. The incident became a diplomatic issue with India's neighbouring country as university au...