Chandigarh, June 24 -- A Panjab University (PU) committee, formed to look into the issue of mandatory affidavit on permission for holding protests that students seeking admissions are required to submit, on Monday recommended against this clause. It stated that students should rather be asked to intimate the authorities before holding protests. At the same time, students from different parties staged a protest outside the vice chancellor's office, seeking withdrawal of such conditions.

Prof Dinesh Kumar from the department of laws, faculty-in-charge for campus security and also a member of the committee, said, "The purpose is to make students inform us about their protest schedule so that adequate security measures are ensured. We recomm...