Bhubaneswar/Balasore, Jul 21 (PTI) Ten days after a second-year integrated B Ed woman student resorted to self immolation over alleged sexual harassment by a teacher, normalcy returned to Fakir Mohan (Autonomous) College in Balasore on Monday, officials said.

The 20-year-old student had set herself on fire on July 12 as her complaint of sexual harassment was "not validated" by an internal enquiry committee of the institute. She died on July 14.

Also Read | Jagdeep Dhankhar Steps Down As Vice President of India 2 Years Before Term Ends, Cites Health Reasons.

Classes were held as usual after 10 days, with students attending college, officials said.

However, the Crime Branch of Odisha Police continued its probe into the circumstances leading to the student's self-immolation on July 12 and her death two days later at AIIMS Bhubaneswar.

Also Read | Jagdeep Dhankhar Resigns as VP: How Is a New Vice President of India Elected? Who Can Cast Vote?.

"Only Crime Branch people had visited the campus today and recorded statements of some staff and certain students," Fakir Mohan (Autonomous) College in-charge principal Firoz Kumar Padhi told reporters.

Padhi said the UGC's four-member team have returned to Delhi, while the Odisha Higher Education department's three-member team have completed their investigation and did not turn up on Monday.

Meanwhile, CB DSP Iman Kalyan Nayak said that their investigation was going on and they were doing it professionally. They have also met the members of the Internal Complaint Committee (ICC), whose report is considered a major factor for the woman student setting herself on fire.

The ICC report had allegedly given a clean chit to accused Head of the Department (HoD) of Integrated B Ed, Samira Kumar Sahoo. The ICC did not find any truth behind the woman student's sexual harassment allegation, said Balasore MP Pratap Sarangi.

(The above story is verified and authored by Press Trust of India (PTI) staff. PTI, India’s premier news agency, employs more than 400 journalists and 500 stringers to cover almost every district and small town in India.. The views appearing in the above post do not reflect the opinions of LatestLY)