Five people were detained after clashes broke out between the Law School and Engineering departments of Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Bhubaneshwar on Saturday, 17 November. Both schools were been closed and hostels have were evacuated till further notice, news agency ANI reported.

The clashes broke out on 24 November after simmering tensions over lewd comments passed to a female student the previous day.

On the evening of 23 November, a second-year B-Tech Mechanical Engineering student allegedly harassed a final-year female law student. Following the incident, the law student and her batchmates protested at the BTech hostel and demanded an apology. The accused apologised by the end of the day.