Kolkata/IBNS, July 4 -- The Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered the shut down of all college union rooms across West Bengal until fresh elections, in the wake of a 24-year-old law student's alleged rape on the campus of her institution, media reports said.

A division bench of Justices Somen Sen and Smita Das directed the State Higher Education Department to issue notices to the college and universities to lock the union rooms.

The union rooms can't be used for recreational purposes, cleared the court.

No student union elections have been held in the state since 2017.

The court came down heavily upon the government after the female student's alleged rape by three men including a TMC functionary inside the union room at South Calcut...