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LPU PROTEST LIVE: Highway Blocked, Vehicles Set Ablaze | Police Clash With Students in Phagwara
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- Sep 27, 2026, 3:28 PM UTC
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Students block the national highway, followed by a protest outside Lovely Professional University (LPU). https://t.co/IEWXNrr3Rz pic.twitter.com/EKJZCjygAr
Protests over an alleged rape claim at Lovely Professional University in Phagwara escalated into violence on the second day, with students blocking the Phagwara-Jalandhar stretch of National Highway 44. Demonstrators pelted stones and vandalised vehicles, setting a Punjab police vehicle on fire and leaving several…
Students at Lovely Professional University (LPU) in Phagwara, Punjab, have clashed with police after protests over claims that an outsider raped a female studen