India, Oct. 25 -- The IIT-B administration and students protesting the September 18 suicide of an undergraduate student are still locked in a deadlock over returning the students' belongings and a statue of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar removed form the protest site.

The students, who have been facing off with the IIT administration for weeks, arrived at the campus security office at 10 am and were met with a panel of four professors and security officers. Cameras were also recording the process.

The students began to collect their belongings confiscated from a protest site they had set up on campus. Their demand for the presence of a student representative was turned down, they said in a letter circulated among the IIT-B community on Saturday,...