Kolkata, Sept. 14 -- At least 62 people were injured, five of them grievously after the police on Friday lathicharged and fired tear gas shells on a Left Front rally which marched 35 km from Singur towards the State Secretariat at Nabanna in quest of adequate employment opportunities and cheaper education. Five policemen were also injured in the melee when the crowd pelted stones at them, sources said.
Five of the injured protesters undergoing treatment at various hospitals of the city were still in a comatose stage almost five hours of the action, former CPI(M) MP Samik Lahiri said alleging ruling Trinamool Congress goons joined the policemen and threw brickbats and bombs from the buildings surrounding Mullick Fatak area where the inciden...