The MU agreed to his request of limited access to the hostel room, after which the HC asked it to help in packing Balkhande's belongings. Buddhist monk Rajesh Balkhande alias Bhadant Vimansa, a former student of Mumbai University, who has been staging a protest at Kalina campus for months demanding aided status for the Pali department, told the Bombay High Court on Thursday that he would vacate the premises by May 3. This came a day after the court pulled him up, saying not to turn the premises into an akhada (wrestling arena). A bench of Justices Ravindra V Ghuge and Hiten S Venegavkar, hearing MU’s plea seeking action in the matter, noted that after the April 29 hearing, senior advocate Mihir Desai prevailed upon Balkhande and made a statement that he would be leaving the MU premises at Kalina by 5 pm on May 3. Balkhande had been staging a sit-in protest demanding an independent building for the Pali language department, having over 400 students, along with government aid.…