India, Jan. 28 -- Several law students of Jammu University were briefly detained on Tuesday after they blocked a vital road in support of their demand to set up a National Law University here, officials said.

The students, who took out a march from the university campus, were stopped by police shortly after crossing the main gate while heading towards the nearby Tawi Bridge in the heart of the city, the officials said.

However, they managed to break the police cordon and stage a sit-in at Tawi Bridge, blocking traffic, the officials said.

Senior police and civil officers rushed to the spot, but the students ignored their pleas to return to the campus, following which many of them were detained and taken to a nearby police post, they sa...