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SUCI, DSO holds protest march in Kolkata, clash with police

| | May 29, 2017, at 10:51 pm
Kolkata, May 29 (IBNS): Several protesters and few policemen were injured during a clash between city police and SUCI protesters in Kolkata's downtown Esplanade area on Monday afternoon, reports said.

According to reports, demanding step to bring back pass-fail system in state government-run and aided schools' exams till class-VIII, leader-activists of SUCI and its students' wing AIDSO held a protest rally in the city and staged demonstration near state assembly (Vidhan Sabha Bhawan)'s gate no.: 6.

The agitation turned violent when police intervened and tried to disperse protesters from the area.

Protesters reportedly clashed with the security forces and police and Rapid Action Force (RAF) restored to lathicharge to bring the situation under control.

SUCI leadership alleged that several of their protesters were injured as police brutally lathicharged them while few leader-activists of the party has been booked.

However, a heavy police force along with RAF have been deployed to the area to avoid further untoward incident.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha, Image from archive)

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