Lalgarh, July 10: Students of a high school today locked up classrooms, being used as camps by security forces and police who were engaged in anti-Maoist operations at Lalgarh in West Midnapore, but the police took control of the rooms after a batoncharge.
Students of the Binpur High School locked up the classrooms, which a company of the Kolkata police was using as a camp, as a mark of protest since their studies were being affected.
Later, the police resorted to a lathi-charge to disperse the students and unlocked the classrooms.
Aggrieved at this, local people threatened to agitate if the school was not opened immediately.
“Though the administration has promised to evacuate educational institutions, security forces and the police have been occupying the schools which have made students suffer,” tribal leader and People’s Committee against Police Atrocities chief Chhatradhar Mahato told PTI.
–PTI