Odisha 'harassment' case: President Murmu meets student who set herself ablaze

NEW DELHI: President Droupadi Murmu met the 20-year-old assemblage pupil astatine the AIIMS Bhubaneswar pain unit, wherever the miss is undergoing attraction aft attempting self-immolation alleging that her claims of intersexual harassment by a prof went unheard.

The President was astatine the infirmary to be the institute's convocation.

The pupil acceptable herself connected occurrence adjacent the main gross of the assemblage connected Saturday during a peaceful protestation that started connected July 1, demanding enactment against the Head of the Education Department (HoD). Students and friends claimed she had antecedently filed complaints accusing the HoD of intelligence harassment, misbehaviour, and threats to manipulate her world show by lowering her interior marks unless she complied with his intersexual demands.

The pupil concisely walked distant from the objection area, doused herself successful petrol, and ignited herself. CCTV footage captured the pupil mounting herself ablaze earlier moving toward the principal's bureau and aboriginal done the campus. She was subsequently rescued by chap students.Earlier successful the day, the assemblage main was arrested, pursuing the earlier apprehension of the caput of section (HoD).Read more: Balasore assemblage main arrested aft pupil attempts self-immolation; 'tormentor' HoD was held earlier implicit intersexual harassment claimsA two-member squad from the Crime Branch is investigating the incidental pursuing wide outrage crossed the state. The Education Department has besides formed a three-member committee to inquire into the incident.