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Violent protests at Lovely Professional University (LPU) in Punjab’s Phagwara erupted after social media reports and student claims about the alleged rape of a female student on campus, coupled with questions over the suicide of another student from Telangana.
Around 2,000 policemen were deployed on campus to ensure law and order; FIR filed, probe initiated, varsity authorities call allegations
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…