Bhubaneswar, Feb. 21 -- KIIT founder Achyuta Samanta today appeared before a fact-finding committee probing the issue of the alleged suicide of a Nepali girl student and subsequent harassment of other students of the neighbouring country by the varsity authorities.

Samanta, a former Lok Sabha MP from Kandhamal, deposed before the high-level committee comprising Home Department Additional Chief Secretary Satyabrata Sahu, Women and Child Development Department Principal Secretary Shubha Sarma and Higher Education Department Commissioner-cum-Secretary Aravind Agrawal at the State Guest House in the capital city here in the evening.

The state government had earlier asked the KIIT founder to appear before the fact-finding committee and produ...