Chandigarh, Nov. 6 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has directed the Centre to examine whether the National Investigation Agency (NIA) needs to take over the probe into violence and arson reported at Lovely Professional University (LPU), Phagwara, in September.

The bench of chief justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and justice Rohit Kapoor also directed Punjab to forward a report about commissioning of scheduled offence in terms of section 6 of the 2008 Act, to the central government within 72 hours.

"The Centre would take an appropriate decision in the matter on the basis of the report submitted by the state government within a week after getting the report. The authorities concerned would place before the court the developments in this r...