India, May 23 -- The Calcutta high court on Friday directed the police to not take any coercive steps against protesting teachers who lost their jobs in April this year after a Supreme Court verdict.

The high court also directed the agitating teachers of state-run schools to shift their protest venue to Central Park in Salt Lake, located opposite Bikash Bhavan, the state's education department headquarters, and told the authorities to make the requisite arrangements for them

"In view of the issues relating to protest, the state is directed to treat the agitators with a humane face and to that extent, if it is possible, the concerned administration would see to that a temporary structure is made available to the agitating members so that...