The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday ordered a judicial inquiry into the violence on the campus of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU).
A number of students, including women, and two journalists were injured in a lathi charge by the police whwn a protest on Saturday night against an alleged eve-teasing incident turned violent.
“A judicial inquiry has been ordered into the incidents,” government spokesperson and Minister Srikant Sharma said in Lucknow. He was speaking to journalists after a meeting of the Cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Mr. Sharma, however, did not elaborate as to whether the probe would be conducted by a retired or a sitting judge.
The violence erupted after some students, protesting against the incident on Thursday, wanted to meet the Vice Chancellor at his residence.
As opposition parties targeted the BJP over the police action on the campus, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah on Monday spoke to the Chief Minister and asked him to address the issue at the earliest.
Mr. Sharma said the government wanted that there should be communication with the students by the local administration, Vice Chancellor and other university officials. He accused the Opposition parties of trying to vitiate the academic atmosphere.
'Do politics with us, not students'
“If they wish to do politics, they should do it with us and not with students. They should keep away from holding agitations on campuses,” he said.
On the lathi charge on girl students sitting a dharna against the alleged eve-teasting on the campus, he said, “We are identifying those ‘outsiders’ who are using the students to do politics and also identifying those who indulged in the lathi charge.”
He said the government had asked the local administration to strengthen the security on the campus. “It has been decided to install CCTV on the campus,” he added.