Teachers demand action against deputy commissioner over assault

  • | Friday | 23rd February, 2018

The teachers' body had also gone on a strike on Wednesday with the same demand. Believing him to be drunk, I asked him to be taken away, and accordingly he was kept at Sonari police station for a few hours. Dev was also reportedly detained by police at Sonari police station for 12 hours and later released on bail for the same reason.When contacted, deputy commissioner (Charaideo) Bibekananda Phukan said, "The teacher had entered the meeting room in a very unstable manner. Later I came to know that he was not drunk and he is a man of some abnormal behaviours. "On Thursday, thousands of teachers under the aegis of Asom Raijyik Prathamik Sikshak Sanmilani (ARPSS) demanded that the DC be punished, issuing a 72-hour ultimatum.

JORHAT: Over 1.6 lakh teachers from more than 60,000 primary schools across the state observed a 'Black Day' on Thursday in protest against the assault on a teacher in upper Assam's Charaideo district allegedly on the orders of the deputy commissioner last Saturday for a fifteen-minute delay in attending a meeting.Ajit Dev, the headmaster of Panbari Lower Primary School , was physically assaulted by personal security officers of Charaideo deputy commissioner Bibekananda Phukan on February 17. Dev was also reportedly detained by police at Sonari police station for 12 hours and later released on bail for the same reason.When contacted, deputy commissioner (Charaideo) Bibekananda Phukan said, "The teacher had entered the meeting room in a very unstable manner. Believing him to be drunk, I asked him to be taken away, and accordingly he was kept at Sonari police station for a few hours. Later I came to know that he was not drunk and he is a man of some abnormal behaviours."On Thursday, thousands of teachers under the aegis of Asom Raijyik Prathamik Sikshak Sanmilani (ARPSS) demanded that the DC be punished, issuing a 72-hour ultimatum. The teachers' body had also gone on a strike on Wednesday with the same demand. Education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has ordered a probe into the alleged incident. "The education minister has ordered an inquiry on the February 17 incident. We demand the government punish the DC within the next 72 hours. We have also decided to stage dharnas in all the district headquarters and subdivisions on February 26 if our demands are not addressed," said ARPSS secretary Ratul Goswami.

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