Kolkata/IBNS, May 16 -- West Bengal government teachers, who lost their jobs after a Supreme Court order over allegations of irregularities in their recruitment process, clashed with police during a protest on Thursday.

They even broke open the main gate of Bikash Bhavan, the West Bengal Education Department headquarters in Kolkata's Salt Lake.

More than 1,000 sacked teachers, identified as "not tainted" and allowed to return to schools until December, have been staging a dharna outside Bikash Bhavan since Wednesday afternoon as part of the "Bikash Bhawan Abhijan" against the School Education Department and the School Service Commission (SSC).

As the protest turned violent on Thursday, police resorted to lathicharge. Some of the protes...