Overview

• ABVP paused its agitation following a Sunday meeting in Lucknow, with the group citing assurances that its demands would be addressed and formal inquiries were in motion.
• Yogi Adityanath earlier ordered probes into the September 1 lathicharge, removed the Barabanki circle officer, and suspended four policemen linked to the action on students.
• Barabanki authorities demolished a campus structure identified as encroachment on government land, which was one of ABVP’s key demands.
• Police reported four arrests tied to the September 1 violence and said those detained were outsiders, with security stepped up during the demolition operation.
• An FIR against SRMU over the law course remains on record, and tensions escalated after minister Om Prakash Rajbhar called ABVP workers “goons,” drawing a legal notice from an ABVP member.