Local students at the institute, on the other hand, opposed most of the demands of outstation students, including that for permanent presence of central security forces, saying it will make the campus vulnerable to disturbance.
The outstation students, who are demanding shifting of NIT out of Kashmir and action against police personnel involved in lathicharge on Tuesday among other things, took out a march on the campus for the fourth day today.
They said the students wanted to interact with the media personnel camping outside the main gate of the institute at Hazratbal.
The students shouted slogans in favour of their demands but later went back inside the campus, the officials said.
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Meanwhile, with the state police under attack over the Tuesday's lathicharge, two senior officers of the force took to social media to vent their anguish.
Mubassir Latifi, SSP of the elite Crime Branch and Firoz Yehya, DySP at Baramulla Headquarters answered criticism against the force for taking action against the agitating students at NIT campus.
"J and K Police is a saga of sacrifice and courage and has brought this state out of a madness called terrorism," said Latifi, a Masters in Law.
"Jammu and Kashmir Police doesn't discriminate on the basis of who's local and who's nonlocal. Neither do we enjoy beating up people. Force is used only for maintenance of law and order and to disperse unlawful assembly of people," he added.
He said anyone resorting to violence was committing a crime. "Someone resorting to violence is committing a crime and police knows how to take on crime," he wrote.
"Many of my colleagues have been asking and many more must be thinking 'whose war are we fighting?' All I can tell them is that, this is just another phase and will pass. Further, JK Police doesn't need any certificate..."
Yehya reminded the critics that the state police has
taken tough action against its own officers wherever they have been found guilty of overstepping their jurisdiction.
"Those who are seen to be doing anything other than what law permits them to do will be taken to task...Please remember JKP must be one of the few Police forces which has the courage to take action against proven offences by officers of high rank and officials of its own force," the police officer said.
The police resorted to lathicharge of the outstation students on April 5 when they were making attempts to come out on the road from the campus, located on the banks of Dal lake.
The students tried to push their way out of campus and march on the streets of Hazratbal in a bid to return to their home. They allegedly pushed a senior police officer following which the police swung into action and chased them back to their rooms.
Yehya said the complete video coverage of the incident at NIT would have "achieved zero debate and low TRP" for some news channels. "It's all economics, u see," he said.
In an apparent message to TV channels, he said "intelligence lies in checking out the whole set of facts rather than seeing partially true scenes on videos meant to evoke sentiments of common and less intelligent people.
"Some lampoons celebrated the defeat of Indian cricket team, other lampoons reacted and vandalised the institution. The authorities of the institution didn't step in and one thing led to another," he said.
Meanwhile, local students, in a memorandum to the team of Union HRD Ministry, said the demand by outstation students for permanent presence of central security forces at the institute can make it vulnerable to disturbances owing to political events outside the campus.
"We are all aware of the volatile nature of Kashmir region. Presence of central security or armed security forces of any type will only make the campus (and subsequently, its students) vulnerable to disturbance owing to political events outside college," the memorandum reads.