Kolkata, May 16 -- The ongoing movement against the teachers' recruitment scam took an ugly turn when a number of school teachers were on Thursday injured after the Bengal Police resorted to a lathicharge on them outside the Education Ministry at Vikas Bhawan in Salt Lake area North of Kolkata.
"About 50 of us have been injured with many of us suffering head injuries," one of the injured teachers said adding the incident took place late on Thursday evening.
The "deserving" teachers whose services were earlier terminated following an early April Supreme Court order have been agitating outside the Education Ministry demanding reinstatement to their services.
"Why should we be terminated for the fault of the Government despite... the Court ...