India, May 1 -- The 52-year-old Mumbai University research scholar and Buddhist monk, who has been staging a prolonged protest at the Kalina campus, submitted an undertaking to the Bombay High Court on Thursday that he will vacate the premises by Sunday evening.

A division bench of justices Ravindra V. Ghuge and Hiten S. Venegavkar was hearing a petition filed by Mumbai University seeking directions to the police to evict Rajesh Balkhande, a PhD scholar in the Marathi department, who has been protesting near the university gate since September last year. Balkhande has been raising several demands, including government funding for the Pali department, which he said is currently operating without grants, leading to higher course fees.

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