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| Protests continue at NIT, cops say 'don't need certificate of nationalism' | | NIT row | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Apr 8: Outstation students at NIT here continued their protests on Friday over various demands even as some officers of the state police spoke out over criticism against the force, saying no "certificate" of nationalism is needed by the force which has brought the state out of terrorism.
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.
The protesting students tried to march towards the main gate but were stopped by the security force personnel on duty inside the campus, officials said. 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.
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 doesn't need any certificate of nationalism or impartiality from those whose valour doesn t extend beyond their keypads," Latifi posted on his 'Facebook' account.
"J and K Police is a saga of sacrifice and courage and has brought this state out of a madness called terrorism," said Latifi.
"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.
Yehya said that many of his colleagues have been asking and many more must be thinking "whose war are we fighting?" |
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