PRAYAGRAJ, Feb. 7 -- The Allahabad high court has set aside a direction issued by a single-judge bench that required a Noida university student to stand at the campus gate for 30 days holding a placard declaring, "I will never misbehave with any girl."

A division bench comprising chief justice Arun Bhansali and justice Kshitij Shailendra held that the direction was "unjustified" and "humiliating", observing that it would cast a "permanent scar" on the student's character.

The order was passed while disposing of a petition filed by the student, Harsh Awana, who had challenged the condition imposed for his reinstatement at Noida International University.

The student had been rusticated by the university in March 2023 following allegation...