Nearly a month after a social media message alleging the rape of a student at Lovely Professional University (LPU) in Punjab’s Kapurthala district triggered protests and campus violence, the police on Thursday filed a cancellation report in a Phagwara court, stating that an extensive investigation found no evidence to substantiate the allegation.

The case will formally close once the court accepts the report.

Naveen Singla, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Jalandhar Range, told The Indian Express that the cancellation report was submitted after an extensive investigation by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) under the supervision of Kapurthala Senior Superintendent of Police Gaurav.

As part of the probe, the SIT said it examined footage from 14 CCTV cameras covering 3,000 hours over 10 days. It also recorded responses from around 800 female students living in different university hostels, including the hostel where the alleged incident took place.…