Agitating lecturers to be booked for vandalism, attacking regulation keepers: Bengal Police

“Nineteen police personnel have been injured. Whereas 18 sustained minor accidents, one is in critical situation. We’ve safety digital camera footage of the whole incident. Those that indulged in violence and vandalism can be recognized and booked,” Shamim stated.

A number of individuals have been injured on Thursday evening when a piece of the 2016-batch lecturers who misplaced their jobs after the Supreme Courtroom’s April 3 order within the bribe-for-job case clashed with policemen who tried to take away their highway blockade.

The lecturers alleged that a minimum of two of their colleagues have been mendacity with fractured legs after the baton cost.

Bikash Bhawan homes 56 different authorities departments as properly. Round 500 individuals work on the advanced.

The agitating lecturers blocked all entrances to Bikash Bhawan round midday. Because of this, all staff and guests have been locked in. Because the standoff continued, the police requested the agitators round 8:30pm to let the staff and guests go away however the lecturers refused.

“As authorities staff, we’ve full sympathy for individuals who misplaced their jobs, however the regulation is for everyone. We revered the feelings of the agitators and confirmed excessive persistence from 11am to eight:30pm. However after we have been making an attempt to evacuate the trapped individuals stones and bottles have been pelted. A authorities employees member suffered a head harm. We didn’t use any pressure till then,” Shamim stated, refuting allegations that the baton cost was unprovoked.

“We didn’t use water cannon, tear fuel and so on, as a result of these are available in later phases of escalation. Sure, lathi (baton) cost can be a use of pressure but it surely was a dynamic state of affairs. It’s not attainable to measure the quantum of pressure for use or not for use on a minute-to-minute scale. The unrest continued properly past midnight,” Shamim added.

“If we meant to not allow them to maintain an agitation, we wouldn’t let it proceed as we speak,” he stated.

“The agitators violated the regulation first after they broke the barricades and laid a siege on Bikash Bhawan. Who would have taken duty if one thing occurred to the pregnant woman who was inside? It nearly grew to become a hostage like state of affairs,” stated Shamim.

Suman Biswas, one of many lecturers, claimed, “The police acted like barbarians. Girls have been assaulted as properly. Two lecturers are in hospital with fractured legs. A 3rd has suffered an eye fixed harm.”

The appointments have been first cancelled by the Calcutta excessive courtroom in 2023, and the state challenged the order on the Supreme Courtroom.

On April 3, the division bench of Chief Justice of India scrapped the appointments of all 2016-batch faculty lecturers and Group-C and D employees saying there was no option to segregate the contaminated from the non-tainted.

On an attraction by the state, the highest courtroom allowed the non-tainted lecturers to proceed in service till December 31. The courtroom additionally directed the state to begin a recent recruitment course of by Might 31 and full it in three months.

Thursday’s agitation was known as with the demand that every one non-tainted lecturers should be allowed to proceed in service with none situation.

The alleged recruitment case hit the headlines in Might 2022 when the Calcutta excessive courtroom ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation to probe the appointment of non-teaching employees (Group C and D) and instructing employees by WBSSC and West Bengal Board of Secondary Training between 2014 and 2021 when Partha Chatterjee was training minister.

The Enforcement Directorate, which began a parallel probe, arrested Chatterjee in July 2022. The ED filed expenses towards him, ex-primary training board president and legislator Manik Bhattacharya and 52 others in January this 12 months.