Odisha College Student Who Set Herself On Fire Over Inaction Against Harassment Dies

A 22-year-old college student from Odisha, who set herself on fire over inaction on a sexual harassment complaint against a professor, died last night after battling for life for three days. "Despite adequate resuscitation and all possible supportive management, including renal replacement therapy at Burns ICU, she could not be revived and was declared clinically dead at 11:46 pm on 14/05/25," the AIIMS Bhubaneswar said in a statement. The woman, a B.Ed student at the Fakir Mohan Autonomous College in Balasore, had accused her head of department, Professor Samir Kumar Sahu, of sexual harassment on July 1. She had detailed months of abuse and threats from the professor in a letter to the college's Internal Complaints Committee, but no action was taken against the professor.

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