Not a funny incident but I have heard this many times from my seniors and even coaching teachers who studied at iit Kanpur. In 2004 IIT Kanpur invited Punjab engineering college for a women’s basketball match. There was a slightly obese girl on whom someone passed a lewd comment. Later. She got some of the guys from the college to bash the student who passed said comments.

Where the news reached the Dean of student affairs (DOSA) he fired the iitk student and also the student body in general for letting down the college. He completely ignored the PEC guys who did violence.

Now this DOSA was very unpopular. Especially disliked by the president of the student gymkhana. So this gymkhana people decided to take revenge on the DOSA. Students were recruited and used to break into the rooms of PEC students and destroy their belongings. The whole thing was presented like it was done only by students without any involvement of the gymkhana.

The DOSA then called everyone for some kind of identification. Some 300 students were summoned. Most of them were clueless, then suddenly in the crowd people started blaming the DOSA for all the problems.

Soon there was a huge protest outside the DOSA's residence. With slogans like "Dosa resign karo" most did not even know why they were saying it.

Later the director finally gave into the demands and the DOSA himself resigned and PEC was banned permanently...