Bhubaneswar, Feb. 18 -- The days following the death of an international student from Nepal at the KIIT University in Bhubaneswar have opened a can of worms for the university management. Following allegations and viral footage of high-handedness and excessive use of force by KIIT security personnel, a video clip featuring its founder, Achyuta Samanta, interacting with and asking the agitating students to dismiss their protest has now come to the fore.

Along the same lines, a phone call recording made by one of the boys' hostel inmates to a relative describing the alleged sequence of events, including goons allegedly entering their rooms and assaulting them has been obtained by OTV.

The extensive phone call detailed that the students, s...