Earlier, the PAU had only transferred him from PAU campus in Ludhiana to research station in Kapurthala following which students had started an online protest on Twitter (now called X) demanding his immediate suspension and registration of an FIR.
The police stood down because the attackers, armed with guns and swords, were also carrying a Guru Granth Sahib, the holy book of the Sikhs, Senior Superintendent of Punjab Police Harpal Singh Randhawa said.