According to police on Monday, a third-year B-Tech student Prakriti Lamsal at a private engineering institution, KIIT in Odisha committed suicide in her dorm
The dead was identified as Nepalese national, age 20 Prakriti Lamsal. According to the Registrar, she was a third-year computer engineering B-Tech student at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) with her found dead in QC-4.
Who is Prakriti Lamsal, as KIIT Bhubaneswar, Odisha Nepali student commits suicide due to ex-boyfriend Advik Srivastava
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Advik Srivastava was arrested just hours after a third-year B.Tech student was discovered dead at the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) University dorm campus in Bhubaneswar.
Advik Srivastava, a mechanical engineering student at the same university, was accused by the deceased girl’s classmates and acquaintances of torturing her physically and psychologically during the course of their three-year relationship.
Police identified the victim as Nepal resident and the accused as Lucknow resident Advik Srivastava (21) with him reportedly having two brothers named Ansh and Vansh. While a string of Reddit posts have claimed that Advik’s father is a politician which is why the college was trying to suppress the case along with delete evidence, this is yet to be officially confirmed with the name of his parents not known yet.
The accused was detained from outside the airport on Sunday evening as he was trying to flee the city and has been booked under section 108 of the BNS (abetment of suicide) after Prakriti was found dead in QC-4.
Lamsal’s cousin, Siddhant Sigdel, filed an FIR stating that she was continuously harassed and an audio clip featuring abuse from Srivastava surfaced online. KIIT claimed that Lamsal and Srivastava were in a relationship and that the suicide might have resulted from a personal dispute while Sunil Lamsal, father of the deceased Nepali student at KIIT University, stated that his daughter was harassed and emotionally blackmailed, leading to her suicide.
An audio clip allegedly featuring a conversation between Advik and Prakriti has surfaced on social media and gone viral and in the clip, a young man was heard abusing and harassing a girl.
"Justice for Prakriti Lamsal! A Nepali student at KIIT University was found dead after alleged harassment by her ex-boyfriend. Nepali students are protesting, demanding accountability and justice. #JusticeForPrakriti #StopHarassment #Madharasi pic.twitter.com/2gIRa05OQV
— Veeresh Kumar (@VeereshKum9526) February 17, 2025
Prakriti was found dead under mysterious circumstances in the hostel campus of KIIT University on February 16 evening and it is suspected that she died by suicide after allegedly being harassed by Advik over their strained relationship. Prakriti Lamsal was a B.Tech third-year student of the educational institution.
A photo of a flight ticket having the name of accused Advik Srivastava has surfaced and the photo features a flight ticket dated 16 February 2025 booked in the name of Advik Srivastava, having Biju Patnaik International Airport in Bhubaneswar as its origin and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata as its destination.
The boarding time, as mentioned in the flight ticket, was 8.35 PM while the departure time was 9.20 PM which alludes towards Prakriti’s ex-boyfriend trying to flee the city prior to his arrest.
Advik Srivastava is her ex ?
— Bimala Bogati (@Bogati2017) February 17, 2025
KIIT in a statement said: “A Nepali student studying in the third year of B-Tech committed suicide in the hostel yesterday. It is suspected that the student was in a love affair with another student studying at KIIT. It is suspected that the student may have committed suicide due to some reason.” The KIIT said that the incident was immediately reported to the police.
All Nepali students were instructed to leave the campus by a notice sent by the Registrar’s office.
This is the guy, Advik Shrivastav 3rd year student of KIIT pic.twitter.com/kWPH0bBlFB
— dumbfuck juice 🧃 (@superhot002) February 17, 2025
Nepali third-year B.Tech KIIT student Prakriti Lamsal committed suicide due to her ex-boyfriend. It is believed that she committed suicide as a result of being harassed about their connection by a male stident who was a third-year student at the same university studying mechanical engineering.
The man was abusing Prakriti severely, and last month she even reported the incident to the university’s International Relations Office (IRO). But despite her fervent plea for assistance, nothing concrete was done.
This is the guy who sexually harrased the girl who took her life yesterday in KIIT for months and mentally tortured her.
His Instagram is – @/ __advikk
His name Advik Shrivastava pic.twitter.com/1uUekXquB6— Joe (@Joearya_10) February 17, 2025
University on Prakriti Lamsal’s death
According to a source, she killed herself because she couldn’t handle the harassment. There is also a rumoured voicemail between Prakriti and the accused boy in which the former is heard assaulting the girl and using profanity.
The university officials spoke with the irate international students because the death of Prakriti Lamsal caused some minor animosity among the Nepali students attending KIIT. “The Nepali students have been sent home in consideration of the circumstances. As of right now, everything is quiet,” KIIT stated.
2/6 💔 Friends allege that Prakriti was harassed by her ex-boyfriend, Advik Srivastava, which led to her tragic decision to take her own life due to mental pressure.
3/6 📢 Following the incident, hundreds of students staged protests, demanding justice and pic.twitter.com/YKik1wSehq
— Incognito news 🥸 (@raj894mandal) February 17, 2025
To maintain peace and order on campus, two platoons of police officers—one platoon consisting of thirty personnel were deployed.
“The police have sealed the deceased girl’s room and kept the body at the mortuary till the arrival of her parents,” a varsity official said.
#WATCH | KIIT University girl student suicide | Nepali students allegedly beaten up, forced to leave campus after University declares Sine Die.
The https://t.co/z8QIHJ1Qpn third year girl was allegedly abused, harassed by her ex-boyfriend Advik Srivastava. Before her death, she… pic.twitter.com/x6KJGxUxVz
— OTV (@otvnews) February 17, 2025