Bhubaneswar, Feb. 18 -- A third-year Mechanical Engineering B.Tech international student from Nepal, Prakriti Lamsal, of KIIT University in Bhubaneswar allegedly took her own life on Sunday. In the days that followed, unprecedented chaos and alleged mismanagement by the university authorities have come to light.

The incident has also drawn sharp reactions from the Embassy of Nepal in New Delhi and the Prime Minister of Nepal, KP Sharma Oli. Amid all of this, here is the sequence of events that allegedly drove Prakriti Lamsal to take the extreme step.

In the hours after her death, students of KIIT University launched widespread protests on the campus demanding access to Prakriti Lamsal's mobile phone and laptop. Soon after, friends of th...