Moreover, some of the students put forward demands like strict actions against policemen involved in lathi charge and also asked to move the campus out of Kashmir.
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Unrest was witnessed at the NIT campus, with outstation students expressing a sense of insecurity and attempting to leave the campus, which led to a confrontation with the police. The protesters, who included girl students, were chanting “Bharat Mata ki jai”.
He said that the NIT-Srinagar should be shifted to Jammu and all students from other states given full protection. The US firm said the two companies regarded the clampdown on inversions by President Barack Obama as “adverse tax law change”.The J & K DGP however said: “We are confining the outstation students to their hostels and are allowing them to their classrooms”.
“We demand intervention and reply from Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the safety and security of the non-Kashmiri students studying in NIT Srinagar following use of the brute force by the police”, he said.
She sought to allay apprehensions of the students who feared that the agitation will have a bearing on their academic performance as exams are due to start next week.
A three-member team of central government officials visited the volatile campus of a Kashmir college on Wednesday after days of bitter tension between local and non-local students there presented the first major challenge for the newly-installed coalition government in the state headed by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti.
On Tuesday evening, non-Kashmir students clashed with the police at the institute gate when they were prevented from leaving campus. “We want to assure students’ parents that we are as much concerned as they are”, the Minister said.
NIT Srinagar has around 1,500 non-local students, who have been boycotting classes after clashes took place between a group of non-local students and police on Tuesday.
Tension simmered at the NIT campus last week after India lost the World T20 semi-final to the West Indies.
In a bid to protest the alleged police action that was unleashed on outstation students at NIT, Srinagar, several organisations including JKNPP, JPPF and Sri Ram Sena called for a strike in Jammu on 7 April. “Though we are getting food and facilities in the hostel, we feel insecure inside the campus”, a student told TOI.
The Times of India reported earlier that a Kashmiri teacher was also allegedly assaulted by non-Kashmiri students.
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“The FIRs pertain to damaging public property, attacking a police officer on duty and obstructing a public servant from discharging duty”, a police officer said.
