Jalandhar, Sept. 29 -- Uneasy calm prevailed at Lovely Professional University (LPU) in Phagwara, a day after violent unrest erupted on the campus, with Punjab Police securing all academic and hostel blocks. Internet services within a 3-km radius of the campus were suspended to prevent the spread of unverified reports and rumours. Scores of police personnel, supervised by senior superintendents of police (SSPs) from 10 districts, were stationed on the campus. Punjab director general of police Gaurav Yadav and special DGP (law and order) PK Sinha inspected the security arrangements on the directions of chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday morning. The unrest began on Sunday when a masked mob vandalised university property, torched police vehicles, and set parts of campus buildings on fire following unverified reports that an outsider had raped a female student. Demonstrators blocked the Amritsar-Delhi National Highway-44 for nearly 12 hours. The highway was reopened at around 12:20 am. Kapurthala police had registered a rape case under Section 64 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita against unidentified persons, and the identity of the victim has also not been established. Jalandhar deputy inspector general (DIG) Naveen Singla constituted a seven-member special investigation team (SIT), headed by the Phagwara superintendent of police, with student representatives included as members. The university has a strength of nearly 45,000 students, of whom 25,000 stay in hostels, while the rest are putting up in paying guest accommodations. On Monday, civil and district officials, along with university administrators, resumed talks with student representatives. The students' demands include the immediate identification and arrest of the accused, investigations into past cases of sexual assault and suicides on campus; implementation of a female-only staff policy in girls' hostels; resignation of the warden at Girls' Hostel No. 3, where the alleged incident took place; elections for student president; and a direct address to protesters by LPU chancellor and BJP Rajya Sabha member Ashok Mittal. The DGP said that police are scanning CCTV footage and social media videos to identify perpetrators, noting that outside miscreants were involved in the arson. "The probe will be carried on the basis of technical and digital angles, and the accused will be brought to book," Yadav said. He said police exercised restraint despite provocation and facilitated dialogue between students and the LPU management. "Police used a lot of restraint. Our officers took a view that we will use minimum force. A very conscious decision was taken not to use force against students," Yadav said. Special DGP (Law and order) Sinha said the police have already registered an FIR in the alleged rape case and formed an SIT to investigate the matter. "We had scanned the CCTV footage of the concerned area in front of the student representatives, who admitted that no suspicious activity was seen, but we are not taking any chances. We have preliminarily examined the suspicious area, but we are not giving any final verdict on this. We will go into depth, and if there is one iota of crime that had happened, it will be dealt with in the hardest and harshest possible legal way," he said. Police have not ruled out the possibility of an organised effort to destabilise local law and order. Sinha also clarified that walkie-talkies seized during the commotion belonged to off-duty military officers, including a Major, checking on the safety of colleagues' children. Students started heading home after the university management decided to suspend regular academic classes for 10 days from September 28 and postponed the mid-term examinations until further notice. On Monday, a large number of students left by trains, buses and cabs, while worried parents arrived on campus from Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan to pick up their wards. "I have a train to Muzaffarnagar in the evening. My parents are extremely worried after seeing the visuals of arson and loot on social media platforms," said a student of the computer science department, who did not wish to be named. Ravneet Kumar, a parent from Jammu, said he didn't want his daughter to spend a single night on the campus as "the university management has failed to ensure the safety of wards." LPU vice-chancellor Jaspal Singh Sandhu said, "The students' representatives were unanimous that the unrest was primarily the result of outsiders entering the campus unlawfully with the intent of disturbing peace. The matter is being looked into, and appropriate action will be taken." He added that the university has reviewed and verified the information circulating on social media and strongly refutes the baseless and false claims. "LPU also urges students and parents to rely only on verified information and not on fake social media content," he said....