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A broad coalition of opposition parties in Odisha, led by the Congress and several other parties, has called for a statewide bandh on July 17 in protest against the death of a 20-year-old student of Balasore Fakir Mohan Autonomous College.
The victim, Soumyashree Bisi, succumbed to burn injuries late last night despite a 60-hour treatment effort at AIIMS Bhubaneswar. The girl had taken an extreme step of self-immolating herself on July 12, after allegedly facing prolonged sexual harassment by a senior faculty member.
Odisha Congress termed the girl's death a 'complete failure' of the government and alleged that its inaction led...