The Kolkata police on Thursday midnight detained Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET) qualified students who were protesting outside the state education board’s office in Salt Lake, Kolkata.
In the video, police personnel can be seen detaining the protestors who were staging a sit-in protest. Police were seen taking them forcefully on the bus. The protestors were manhandled by the cops and dragged away from the spot.
Those who had cleared the Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET) in 2014 had been sitting on Dharna for the last four days.
Earlier, the police had requested the protestors to end the dharna and had also given them a set time period for the same. However, on Thursday midnight, the police resorted to force to clear out the site.
Buses were called in and protesters were forcefully removed from the site. Several protesters have been detained and taken to the police station.
The protest by a large number of candidates outside the education board’s office in Kolkata’s Salt Lake ended on the fourth day with some beginning a hunger strike demanding appointment letters immediately.
Nearly 500 candidates, who passed TET in 2014, have been staging a sit-in demonstration outside the primary board office since Monday afternoon, saying that they would not want to appear in a fresh examination. Some of the protesters fell ill on Thursday evening.
Source: India Today
