A storm erupted over rumors of rape by a student at Punjab-LPU: Angry students vandalized and set fire to property, blocking the national highway in the middle of the night.

Here is the translation of the given Hindi text into English, following the provided guidelines: Late at night, students at Lovely Professional University (LPU) in Phagwara, Punjab, created a ruckus and staged protests. After news of an alleged rape by a student spread rapidly on social media groups, thousands of students took to the streets around 2:00 am. Enraged, the students vandalized the university campus and even set fire to a portion of it. Following the uproar at the main gate of the university, the situation escalated.