Bhubaneswar, Feb. 21 -- While the Bhubaneswar-based Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) is currently in the news for wrong reasons due to the alleged suicide of Nepali student Prakriti Lamsal (20) at the hostel of the university, several medical students of Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), a constituent unit of KIIT Deemed to be University, threatened to end their lives over the possible reappointment of a professor, who was accused of molesting female medicos.

In an e-mail to Dr. (Prof.) Ram Chandra Das, Dean & Principal of KIMS, the PG medical students expressed their concern over the recent presence of the accused professor, Dr. Jayaprakash Russel Ravan, on the campus and his attempt to engage with students....