Bhubaneswar, June 21 -- A final-year Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) student at a private engineering college in Odisha, who is also the nephew of state transport minister Bibhuti Bhushan Jena, was booked for abetment to suicide on Sunday, a day after a 21-year-old woman student was found dead in her hostel room, police said.

Biswajit Jena was booked under Section 108 (abetment of suicide) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) following a First Information Report (FIR) lodged by the deceased student's maternal uncle.

The deceased, a third-year BCA student, was found hanging in her hostel room on Saturday morning. She was taken to MKCG Medical College and Hospital in Berhampur, where doctors declared her dead.

Her family said the...