India, April 10 -- West Bengal's Trinamool Congress government landed on a sticky wicket on Wednesday when the Kolkata police allegedly used batons and fists to disperse some agitating school teachers who recently lost their jobs because of the verdict the Supreme Court passed on April 3 in the bribe-for-job case.

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The incident happened at the office of the district inspector of schools (DI) at south Kolkata's Kasba on Wednesday afternoon when a few hundred jobless teachers staged an agitation seeking redressal.

As television news channels aired visuals from the Kasba DI office, showing policemen beating up the agitators with batons and even using...