The Punjab and Haryana high court would take up a public interest litigation (PIL) on Wednesday seeking an independent probe or by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into violence at Lovely Professional University (LPU), Phagwara.
“The petitioner, Ravi Raj, has reliably learnt that a large number of outsiders, including male and female, mostly of age of around 30 years arrived at the campus of university some of them in open cars and other vehicles, even carrying walkie-talkies, carrying and banishing swords, rods, guns and sickles and with their faces well covered to conceal their identity and forcibly opened and broke the main gates and indulged in the vandalism,” the plea claimed, adding that shops were looted and buildings set afire. The petition, filed by a student, was mentioned for urgent hearing on Tuesday and acceding to the request, the court agreed to hear the matter on Wednesday.
