Lalgarh, July 10: Students of a high school today
locked up classrooms, being used as camps by security forces
who were engaged in anti-Maoist operations at Lalgarh in West
Midnapore, in protest against disruption of studies, prompting
the West Bengal Government to announce that the forces would be moved out within two weeks.
Students of Binpur High School locked up classrooms,
which a company of the Kolkata police was using as a camp, as
a mark of protest since their studies were being affected.
The police then resorted to a lathi-charge to disperse
the students and unlocked the classrooms.
Meanwhile tribal leader and People's Committee against
Police Atrocities chief Chhatradhar Mahato told news agencies from an
undisclosed destination, "Though the administration has
promised to evacuate educational institutions, security forces
and the police have been occupying the schools which have made
students suffer."
Later, Home Secretary Ardhendu Sen said in Kolkata,
"The security forces will move out of schools in Lalgarh in
two weeks."
The schools were being used as camps by security
forces and police since last month.
Bureau Report
First Published: Friday, July 10, 2009, 22:47