Tejasvi Arora, a third-year engineering student of NIT  Kurukshetra, died after he drowned in a canal near Jyotisar on the Kurukshetra-Pehowa road on 28th August . Tejasvi and his friends had gone to the canal, nearly 5 km from the NIT campus, on  27th evening. Four of them entered the canal waters , 3 of them were rescued by the irrigation department employees posted near the spot. Tejasvi, however, could not be rescued and he drowned. As the rescue operation was called off by the Director due to darkness. After protests by students , 800 students of third year were suspended by the college authorities and they were immediately asked to vacate their hostels on 30th August. With media blackout online networkings sites facebook have come live to inform on the case . join at https://www.facebook.com/nitkkrscandal2012?ref=stream