India, June 25 -- Students at the Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (CCSHAU) in Hisar, who had been demanding the resignation of vice-chancellor BR Kamboj after the June 10 lathi-charge, on Wednesday agreed to call off their protest after a four-member Haryana government panel agreed to accept their demands.

Interacting with mediapersons at the PWD rest house in Hisar, the agitating students said that state education minister Mahipal Dhanda, who was heading the panel, agreed to accept seven of their demands and negotiated on the eighth one pertaining to Kamboj's resignation.

Student representatives said the minister assured them over phone that the vice-chancellor will be sent on six-month leave until a three-member...