Private university students hold protest, block highway over unverified rape report
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Kapurthula, Gaurav Toora said police have no information of any such crime.
On Sunday morning, September 27, 2026, students from Lovely Professional University (LPU) in Phagwara, Punjab staged a massive protest and disrupted a highway after unverified social media posts alleged a female student had been raped. Gaurav Toora, Superintendent of Police for Kapurthala district, stated there was no evidence to support the claims.
Footage showed students damaging windows, flower pots and setting objects alight. They also blocked the Jalandhar-Phagwara national highway. Toora said police were informed at 1:45 a.m. that students had gathered at the LPU campus and blocked a road. He reported that students expressed grievances about LPU administration but the situation was now under control.
Property damage assessments were underway and legal measures would follow. Toora said police had deployed a large force and the situation remained under control. This incident followed one the previous day at Chitkara University in Patiala, where students blocked a road after claims surfaced that two female students had died on campus.
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