The BJB Autonomous College here was closed since Monday as tension prevailed over an attack on some hostel inmates by outsiders on Sunday evening.
College Principal Mohammed Nawaz Hasan declared the college till December 30 and asked the students to vacate hostels immediately.
According to reports, some nonstudents attacked three students with bamboo sticks at around 7 pm on Sunday when the latter were standing near the Ambedkar Hostel at the college premises.
One of the victims sustained critical injuries and was admitted to the Capital Hospital here.
Protesting the incident, students of the college had staged a road blockade along NH-203 in front of the college gate on Sunday night demanding arrest of the attackers.
Sources said a nephew of a corporator was involved in the attack.
The irate students on Monday too staged road blockade again by burning tyres. Bhubaneswar DCP Satyabrata Bhoi rushed to the spot, after which the protestors were lifted from the spot by police. later, the enraged students ransacked the college premises.
Two platoons of police force were deployed in the campus to avert any further untoward incident.