India, Nov. 10 -- The Chandigarh UT Police resorted to a lathicharge to disperse protesting students and others on the Panjab University campus who have been demanding a schedule for the much-delayed PU senate elections.

Protesters gathering for a November 10 shutdown call were stopped at the PU gates but they sought to remove barricades, at which the police reacted with canes.

Protests for retaining the electoral method for choosing the university's top decision-making bodies, the senate and the syndicate, have continued, even after the central government backed down on its move to turn them into nominated bodies. The protesters, particularly those from Punjab, saw the Centre's move as an assault on the historic university's autonomy a...