Shame on Kolkata Police for Assaulting Teachers

 I am a senior citizen and retired professor, and whatever today I have achieved because of my teachers who taught me from primary, secondary to tertiary level. When I watched on different television channels on April 9, 2025, about teachers' agitation in Kolkata because of scams done by some corrupt officials of West Bengal for Teacher selection, for which both the Calcutta High Court and Supreme Court nullified the selection process.  I was distraught and dejected, and my eyes were full of water when I watched teachers being beaten, and some of them were kicked on April 9, 2025. On TV, I saw one police officer from Kasba police station kicking a teacher. My question is to the WB Govt, who gave the notorious policeman the power to kick a teacher. Why were teachers beaten when many protestors, in many other cases earlier, were treated as guests? The Mothabari case is a great shame to WB police.  I understand many State officials have some issues, so they might have a slave attitude, but the same should not be the feelings of the Central Civil Service officers posted in the State. 

Because of my academic activities, I travelled across the state when I was in service, so I know politics rather dirty politics in the State. Many people of the State told me about the great people of the State whose names are now in history. But my observation is, "one should look at his or her achievement"; uttering great names from history is not one's achievement. Anyway, visuals from the site showed police chasing protesters with lathis, hitting, stomping, and dragging them across the ground as if they were criminals. Some were seen being pushed, pulled, and forcibly manhandled during the confrontation. Two of the protesting teachers sustained major injuries and had to be admitted to the hospital—shame on the Kolkata Police for such rowdy behaviour.

Prof Shankar Chatterjee, Hyderabad