Five hostels of Banaras Hindu University were vacated Wednesday and the security in and around the campus was heightened with the police maintaining security using drone cameras, said officials.
The five hostels whose boarders were ordered to move out were Birla, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Dhanwantri, Ruiya Medical and Ruiya Annexe.
The students of Birla and Lal Bahadur Shastri hostel sat on a dharna on Tuesday, demanding revocation of yesterday's hostel vacation order.
The students' dharna ended late on Tuesday night (around 2 am) after District Magistrate Surendra Singh met them and promised strict action against outsiders who 'instigated' violence in the campus.
The students vacated their hostel rooms by 5.00 pm on Wednesday. "The five hostels have been vacated and the atmosphere in the campus was peaceful after the violence on Monday night," BHU public relations officer Rajesh Singh said.
Meanwhile, the resident doctors have gone on strike in protest of the clash between them and the hostel boarders, sources said. Consequently, medical services were partially affected at Sir Sunderlal Hospital (SSH).
SSH medical superintendent Vijay Nath Mishra said though most resident doctors went on an indefinite strike, a few junior and senior residents had decided to continue their services in their respective departments.
He said an urgent meeting of all heads of the departments of all clinical units of Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS) was convened yesterday in which it was unanimously decided that all OPDs will be functioning as per schedule with limited number of patients -- 100.
Banaras Hindu University has suspended classes on Tuesday and had asked the students to vacate five of its hostels within 24 hours, following which the hostels were vacated by the students on Wednesday.
BHU registrar Neeraj Triptahi ordered closure of the university till September 28, in the wake of violence, arson and vandalism in the campus on Monday night. Varanasi Divisonal Commissioner Deepak Aggarwal, IG (range) Vijay Singh Meena, SSP Anand Kulkarni, DM Surendra Singh had a meeting with BHU vice-chancellor Rakesh Bhatnagar, after which it was decided to close the varsity till September 28.
A large posse of police personnel and the provincial armed constabulary were deployed in and around the campus to prevent any untoward incident.
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