A day murder in broad daylight in the Uday Pratap College in Varanasi has devastated a family and left a campus in turmoil, where the father of the victim is threatening no final rites till the accused is shot down by the police. Surya Pratap Singh, a bright fourth-semester BA student and the single son of his father, was shot down Friday morning in the social sciences building corridor, which caused demonstrations that shook the historic institution into violent protests.

Brutal Campus Execution

At around 11 AM, another student Manjeet Chauhan approached 22-year-old Surya also referred to as Surya Pratap and fired four bullets point-blank in the head, two in the chest. Popular Ghazipur native of Dubaiitha village fell on the ground in blood amidst horror on the eyes of the eyewitnesses. Chauhan ran up the stairs, leaped a boundary-wall, threw his pistol in a rubbish-heap, and disappeared in the lanes.

Surya took a short fight before he died in his wounds which he sustained at a private clinic in Maldahiya and later BHU Trauma Centre. Born into simple family background, his parents Rishidev and Kiran are educators at Atulanand School, abandon their two sisters, and hopes cut short. The police quickly retrieved the arm and accused Anuj Thakur, the assistant of Chauhan, as a co-conspirator and devised six teams to search them through scans of CCTV.

Father’s Raw Fury at Morgue

It was late Friday when Rishidev Singh burst into the postmortem house with his eyes filled with tears and holding his son in his arms covered by a sheet. No cremation till these monsters thou hast meet, he hooled at policemen, disdain the honour of Surya till retaliation through bullet. Hours of standoff followed, and though it was time to take the body to the family residence in Shivpur, police would lead the dead body as mourning relatives shouted his anger.

It was termed by Commissioner Mohit Agarwal as personal enmity between students- there is no gang affiliation, it is just bad blood- but to the father, it reeks of a cover-up, as to why an loaded gun was freely roaming on campus.

​Student Revolt Turns Violent.

The word spread like a bushfire, angry students padlocked the main entrance, burned bikes, demolished vehicles, and beat up three professors one with a bleeding head wound requiring stitches. Mobs full of baton charges and airlifting cowering faculty under cover was rushed in by heavy RAF and local forces. Shut gates of colleges, classes were indefinitely suspended with graffiti screaming Justice or Blood.

Student unions in Varanasi took to the streets, with blockades of Lanka, and demanded metal detectors, frisking, and cop outposts; a throwback to college campus violence in DU to JNU. The natives were outraged about lax security in a temple city and tensions.

​Deepening of the Probe, Cooling of Tensions.

Police arrest on the grounds of Arms Act, homicide, forensic units scramble the street to find casing and prints. Chauhan was a native, whose petty beefs had been rumoured, and he was a dodger in the dark–and now posters of his countenance decorate poles. Associates were asked of SP city Prayag Raj; there was such talk of old feuds over a girl or an insult, but not yet ascertained.

The standoff that Rishidev engages in resembles the UP playbook of engaging in extrajudicial using familes-familes interactions in the face of crawling courts. Hathras to Lakhimpur such cries are the source of debate on the speed of justice vs rule of law. Surya is chilled in his home, Varanasi, the breath: will it be bullets, or will it be courts?

This massacre in the blood On this campus lets the gun culture bleed into ivory towers, where scores are settled with guns. It is a dark eye-opener to parents whose kids are heading to college: bookshelves require bunkhouses.