India, July 15 -- A 20-year-old woman student of Fakir Mohan Autonomous College in Odisha's Balasore, who had set herself ablaze over alleged sexual harassment by a professor, died on Monday night.

The second-year Integrated B.Ed student of Fakir Mohan (Autonomous) College had set herself on fire on Saturday, protesting official inaction on her allegations of sexual harassment by the professor in her college.

"The patient was brought to the casualty on July 12 at 5:15 PM by her friend and was resuscitated with IV fluids, IV antibiotics, intubated and put on mechanical ventilation. Despite adequate resuscitation and all possible supportive management, including renal replacement therapy at Burns ICU, she could not be revived and was decl...