Lahore: The University of Lahore in Pakistan recently expelled two of its students after a video of them hugging each other inside the varsity campus went viral on social media.
According to a statement issued by the registrar of the varsity, a special disciplinary committee meeting was held on March 12 at 10:30am and the two students were called in but failed to appear. The committee then decided to expel the two students and ban them from entering any of the university’s campuses.
The university says they violated Section 9 of its General Discipline Rules and Code of Conduct. These rules are not published online.
Multiple videos were uploaded online of the “incident”. The videos show a young woman handing roses and cards to a young man and then bending down on one knee and holding out a bouquet of roses to him. He takes the roses and then pulls her in for a hug. A crowd of students surrounds the couple and cheers them on.
After the university expelled the couple people took to Twitter to discuss the incident.
