Female Associate Professor Of NLU Odisha Found Dead In Residence

A lady Associate Professor of National Law University, Odisha was found dead at her residence in CDA area of Cuttack on Sunday.

The deceased academic has been identified to be Dr. Ananya Chakraborty, who originally hails from West Bengal.

She was reportedly not attending her duties for last few days for which NLUO officials had tried to contact her. Despite of repeated calls when she did not respond, NLUO authority had alerted the Cuttack police.

Upon being informed, the police reached at her residence which was found to be locked from inside. The door was broken open and she was found dead.

Her dead body has been sent for autopsy but the reason and nature of death is yet not clear.

Dr. Ananya had done her LLB from Department of Law, Calcutta University and LLM from NUJS, Kolkata in 2009. She had obtained her Doctorate degree in Law from KIIT School of Law, Bhubaneswar in 2016.

She had been teaching in the NLUO for last several years. Before joining the premier institute, she had been a faculty in various other Law Schools of West Bengal and Odisha.