In India, students staged riots at the university because of rumors. Video

About 2,000 students staged protests and riots on the campus of Lovely Professional University in the Indian state of Punjab due to rumors spread on social networks, India Today reports.

The published footage shows the crowd standing near the turnstiles, some participants hitting them with various objects. In the following pictures you can see a large crowd of people and a fire. In other footage, a crowd filled the carriageway, with some people climbing onto the structure near a road sign.

It is about rumors about the alleged gang rape of a student or her suicide. Police said they had not received a rape allegation and had not yet found evidence to support the rumors.

The university called the messages disseminated false, baseless and fabricated.

The rioters smashed windows, threw bricks and flower pots and set fire to parts of the university buildings. Protesters also blocked the highway, stopping traffic.

At the scene arrived police officers who cleared the highway. The movement was restored, the situation was taken under control. The police and the university continued negotiations with the students.

In fact, the case was opened against unknown persons. A special investigation team was formed to investigate the circumstances of the riots.

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of New Delhi to demand the resignation of India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. The actions began after the cancellation of the results of entrance exams to medical universities, which were taken by more than 1 million people, due to the leakage of examination questions.

Protests intensified after the forced hospitalization of activist Sonam Wangchuk, who went on hunger strike. The police also began to build fortifications near the Parliament building and warned protesters about the inadmissibility of violating the law.