Imphal: A group of students mostly girls and some women traders entered into a scuffle with police on National Highway -150 at Bishnupur Bazar in Manipur on Saturday after they blocked the highway protesting the state government’s order to transfer a college teacher from their institute.
Police said additional police forces were deployed to bring the situation under control.
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According to reports, a few students and women traders sustained minor injuries in the scuffle.
The students of the Chanambam Ibomcha College, Bishnupur supported by the women traders of Bishnupur Bazar blocked NH-150 at Bishnupur Bazar at around 2 pm on Saturday.
“The traffics between the Imphal to Churachandpur district came to a grinding halt at the bazaar due to the blockade. The protesters entered into a scuffle when the police tried to remove them from the road,” said a police official.
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However, the situation was brought under control after the deployment of additional police forces from the Bishnupur district police station, he said.
A protesting girl student said that while the CI College is facing a shortage of teachers, yet another teacher in the Geography department has been transferred from the college on Friday.
She asked how can only two Geography teachers manage to teach a large number of students in the college when the exam is knocking on the door.