Ranchi, Feb. 4: After riotous scenes at the Sanjay Gandhi Memorial College (SGMC), Pandra, the Ranchi University is not willing to take any chances. It has asked for heavy deployment of police when the undergraduate law examination resumes tomorrow at Ranchi College on Morabadi campus.

Speaking to The Telegraph, pro vice-chancellor A.A. Khan said: ?We have informed senior police officials about tomorrow?s test at the Ranchi College centre. If the students try to disrupt the examination, we will take stern action against them.? The university has written to the district administration to ensure ?uninterrupted? presence of a magistrate with adequate police forces at the centre.

The test was postponed and the venue changed to Ranchi College after first semester LLB examinees from Chhotanagpur Law College went on a rampage in the college, assaulting principal Bigal Mahto after the latter expelled two students for using unfair means. The test for paper VI is scheduled for Sunday.

The university had taken strong exception to the absence of police at the SGMC ? which, the university believes, was responsible for the situation spiralling out of hand.

?Since the law examination is being conducted at the behest of the high court and the Bar Council, the absence of police is nothing but negligence. We do not want to run the risk of another embarrassing situation,? said a senior university official.

After the incident, the university had rusticated four examinees and decided to give zero to each student in the paper V. The students have requested for reexamination of the papers and even threatened self-immolation but the authorities are in no mood to relent. ?Under no circumstances are we going to conduct re-examination for paper V or revoke the rustication order against the four guilty students,? said Khan.

Meanwhile, the probe committee instituted by the university to look into the reasons behind rampage has prepared an inventory of the loss caused.

According to a member of the probe committee, property worth Rs 50,000 was destroyed in the melee. Law examinees, numbering about 458, had damaged almirahs, telephones, vehicles, the college bus and other property on the campus. The member added that the CLC authorities would compensate the loss.