Chandigarh, July 17 -- The Panjab University (PU) on Wednesday has promoted 10 security guards to the rank of Shift Incharge. The move by the PU aims at enhancing on campus security. Vikram Singh, the chief of university security (CUS), said that these shift incharges will be stationed at the security gates and at critical points of the campus. Three of the 10 promoted guards are women.

The decision to appoint an in-charge for each gate comes just a month after June 11, when videos of a brawl between two groups at Gate Number 2 had gone viral. It was seen in the video that two security guards were present at the time when students and former students of the varsity were seen beating up each other with lathis and other weapons. PU had wri...