BHU chief Proctor resigns, takes 'moral responsibility' for protests
September 27, 2017  08:08
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BHU Chief Proctor Professor O N Singh resigned taking moral responsibility for the recent incidents of alleged molestation of a student and violence on campus. 

The university authorities are learnt to have accepted his resignation. 
The resignation came even as the administration and police targeted BHU for not taking up issues of students, and the varsity faculty questioned the alleged forced entry of police into hostels and beating of staff members and students on Saturday night.

The conflicting views have reflected in multiple inquiries being ordered by the government, administration and BHU vice-chancellor into the violence on campus. 

This came as the Yogi Adityanath-led UP government ordered a judicial inquiry into the violence on campus.

On Saturday night, police resorted to lathicharge hundreds of girls outside the BHU campus, where they were protesting against the molestation of a fellow student, university authorities who ended up victim shaming her and a general lack of security on campus. 

UP government spokesperson and cabinet minister Srikant Sharma said that the government wanted communication between students, local administration, vice chancellor and other university officials. Sharma accused the opposition parties of trying to vitiate the academic atmosphere.

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