Odisha Student Attempts Suicide Over Prof's Sexual Harassment Inaction

An assistant professor of an autonomous college in Balasore district of Odisha was arrested and its principal suspended on Saturday, hours after an undergraduate girl student attempted to die by suicide, protesting the inaction over her sexual harassment complaint against him.

Police arrested assistant professor Samir Kumar Sahu, who heads the education department in Fakir Mohan autonomous college, hours after the girl student attempted to die by suicide inside the college campus, protesting official inaction on her complaint of sexual harassment. The girl, who had lodged a complaint with the internal complaints committee of the college on July 1, is battling for her life in AIIMS Bhubaneswar with 90 % burns. Two of her male friends, who tried to save her, are also being treated with burn injuries.