The copy of a six-page order to evict Nobel laureate Amartya Sen from 13 decimals of land at his ancestral home Pratichi went missing on Friday, a day after the notice had been pasted near the gate of the house in Santiniketan.

The Visva-Bharati authorities had issued the eviction order on Wednesday night.

Several sources on the campus, however, told this correspondent that someof the residents of the varsity town had removed the notice, which was indicative oftheir anger towards the authorities, especially vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty, for harassing Sen.

“During my morning walk on Friday, I discovered that there were no orders pasted on the pillars of Pratichi’s gate. Those papers on the gate of Pratichi were really odd to look at. I don’t know who did it, but it was certainly an act of protest against the vindictive attitude of Visva-Bharati against a person like Sen,” said a senior faculty member of Visva-Bharati.

Gitikantha Majumdar, who is taking care of the land-related issues of Pratichi in the absence of the Nobel laureate who is presently in the US, said: “How can we know about the disappearance of the orders? If it is not there, that means people are not accepting such ugly practice by Visva-Bharati.”

Visva-Bharati’s acting public relations officer Mahua Banerjee said: “We had pasted the order on the Pratichi wall on Thursday but don’t know whether it has been removed.”

Reacting to the eviction order, Sen had said on Thursday that appropriate authorities should be asked to prevent “arbitrary abuse of power” by Visva-Bharati.