Kanpur, Feb. 16 :     A day after the BJP's student wing ordered girls not to wear jeans or mini-skirts on campuses in Kanpur, one of the city's oldest institutions has decided to change its 100-year-old dress code. Senior students of St Mary's Convent have been told to junk their skirts and shirts and switch to salwar kameez from the next academic session. In a press note, Sister Damien said the changeover had been ordered 'keeping in mind the Indian tradition'. Another institution, the Acharya Narendra Dev Girls College will follow suit. A school principal, too scared to be named, said: 'The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad has taken the concept of moral policing to the limit. I would, in fact call it cultural terrorism.' Yesterday, the BJP's student wing - which, along with the Shiv Sena, had launched the Valentine's Day crackdown in the interests of 'Bharatiya sanskriti' - had identified salwar kameez as the proper attire for girl students. 'We are helpless. After what happened on Valentine's Day, we are not taking any chances. But the sad part is that somehow they are targeting only women as if we are the ones responsible for the change in Indian ethos,' Pratibha Bhargava, a student said. The Catholic Bishops Conference of India has reacted cautiously to the development. Conference spokesman Fr Dominic Emmanuel said in Delhi: 'We are aware that there are a few self-appointed cultural police who are trying to control society and the agenda of the government. However, we have not received any report from Kanpur. If the news is true, we express our deep concern about such cultural policing.' On Monday, ABVP and Sena activists had gone on a rampage in Kanpur, ransacking gift shops, restaurants and flower stalls to protest against Valentine Day celebrations. Twelve couples were robbed and nearly 250 others had their faces blackened. Yesterday, the ABVP released a list of restaurant owners who, they said, would be kept 'on a tight leash' for 'encouraging western culture'. 'The ABVP boys came here and hunted for couples. Luckily they didn't find any at that time, but I still had to close shop because they told all my customers to get out and go home,' P.K. Jaiswal of Captain's Table, a restaurant in Kanpur, said. A week before Valentine's Day, the ABVP had issued press statements saying a 'students' curfew' would be imposed on that day and anyone violating it would be punished. The All-India Lovers Association was formed to checkmate the move, but members chickened out in the face of ABVP's aggressiveness. Those who dared to protest were humiliated in public. Local witnesses allege that the police stood as mute spectators as the Valentine's Day vandals wreaked havoc. Some even helped dismantle banners and turned a blind eye when couples were dragged out of cars. Asked why the police had looked the other way, Kanpur DIG Dilip Trivedi said: 'There are 5,000 restaurants in Kanpur. It's impossible to post policemen everywhere. Anyway we are investigating and we will take strict action against those who were involved.' But the student leaders are unfazed. Sanjay Kr Jha, ABVP's 'commissioner (administration)', said it was high time something was done to stem the rot in Indian culture. Citing the case of a spurned lover disfiguring his girlfriend's face with acid, he said boys and girls should be allowed to mix only on Rakshabandhan day.