Source: Hueiyen News Service / Newmai News Network
Imphal, December 11 2008:
Some students beaten up their teachers on their way to home after school on the charge of snatching answer script of a student during annual exam today allegedly for misbehaving.
Police have also picked up seven students along with motorcycles they used in committing the crime.
When the teachers including women teachers of the Kanan Devi Memorial School and College, coming back from the school in a bus, were dragged down from the vehicles by a group of around 30 students of the same school at Heingangkhong before reaching Khomidhong along the Imphal-Pangei road and assaulted them, local report said.
School authorities said that the assault of teachers related with snatching of answer paper of a student by a teacher for his un-well and misbehave conduct during the ongoing annual exam of the school today.
As a warning not to behave like that the teacher also beat him up.
On getting reliable information of some students are planning to attack to the teachers, school authorities have also convinced some students not to perform the act as they planned.
But their advice went in vain as the students carried out what they planned, the authority condemned.
Meanwhile, Heingang police has rounded up seven students studying in Standard-XII of the said school, Kanan Devi Memorial School and College allegedly involved in the assault incident with five motorcycles they used at the time of committing the crime, police source said.
In another unrelated incident at Imphal College, police fired several rounds of tear gas to disperse confronting students inside the college campus today at around 3 pm.
The confrontation occurred between a group of students who favour in the formation of a election committee with the representatives of the students and those who opposed it, according to the principal.
The college authority has a planned to constitute an election committee for the smooth conduct of the election which the preparation has started for holding the same December 29 .