Chandigarh, Nov. 15 -- In a stern message to protesting Panjab University (PU) students, the Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday asked them to go back to their classes and let academic activity resume.

Taking up an application filed by former senators of university, including HS Dua, seeking directions for the notification of senate elections, the bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu and justice Sanjiv Berry made it clear that the university's "academic functioning cannot be sacrificed at the altar of electoral aspirations."

The application was moved in an ongoing petition, pending since 2024 - when the senate term ended - seeking the declaration of the schedule of the senate election.

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