Thousands of people attended the funeral of a student of Odisha College, who died on Monday night due to their injuries after setting themselves on fire on alleged sexual harassment in a state college.
The student accused a professor of his college of sexually assaulting, alleging that the complaints of the college officials were kept stoned.
A statement by AIIMS, Bhubaneswar said late at night, “Despite adequate revival and all possible accessory management, including reneel replacement therapy at Burns ICU, he could not be revived and was declared a clinically dead at 11:46 pm at 11:46 pm.”
Thousands including top district officials and local leaders. He gathered in his original village on Tuesday for the ceremony. Later, the victim’s destroyed father said that he would continue to fight until his daughter gets justice.
Strict action will be taken against all the people responsible for this incident, Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi announced a financial assistance of Rs 20 lakh for the student’s family.
The University Grants Commission (UGC) formed a four-member fact-khoj committee to see the incident and assess the measures that the institution has adopted for the safety of women students.
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It has also been made mandatory to engage students, faculty administrators and assistant employees in the culture of the institute. It is a week to submit your report.
Death has snowed into a major political flashpoint, in which the opposition has called the ruling Mohan Majhi government “systemic failure” and “institutional betrayal”.
In a post on X, the former Chief Minister and the current leader of the state opposition, Naveen Patnaik said: “It is even more disturbing how a failed system can take someone’s life. The most painful part is that it was not an accident, but the result of a system that kept quiet instead of helping. While struggling for justice, the girl finally closed her eyes.
“The entire sequence of events suggests that it is no less than institutional betrayal – a planned injustice,” Patnaik wrote on X.
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The BJD has demanded a judicial inquiry into the incident and announced a state-wide protest. The regional party called the Balasore bandh on Wednesday. The Congress and its left colleagues have called the statewide bandh on 17 July.
In a banged post, the Congress leader and the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, called the student’s death “nothing less than the BJP’s murder”.
Gandhi said in a post on X, “That brave student raised his voice against sexual harassment – but instead of giving justice, he was threatened, tortured, and repeatedly humiliated. Those who were about to protect him, kept breaking him,” Gandhi said in a post on X.
Gandhi alleged that the BJP’s system “continued to mold the accused – and forced an innocent daughter to set herself on fire”. “This is not suicide; it is an organized murder by the system,” he said, questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “silence” on such issues.
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Coming back to Gandhi, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said that it is unfortunate that Rahul Gandhi and Congress are playing “cheap politics” on the sad incident related to Odisha’s daughter.
“Converting a serious and sensitive case into a political weapon @Rahul Gandhi shows the petty mentality. The incident in Odisha has shaken the entire nation, but the Congress has seized the opportunity to bake its political bread,” he posts on X.
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