A day after the Calcutta High Court (HC) made strong observations on the incident of physical attack on some teachers of the higher secondary school in Narendrapur in South 24-Parganas district on Saturday the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) suspended the headmaster Syed Imtiaz Ahmed on Wednesday.
The HC has also directed the administration not to allow Ahmed to enter into the school. With the court directive, he is not coming to the school.
The WBBSE today took the drastic step against the headmaster by suspending him from the post at the backdrop against the HC observations. Earlier, soon after the incident the board had issued a show cause notice to Ahmed following a recommendation report made by the district inspector of schools in South 24-Parganas.
Teachers, who were severely attacked by a group of around 50 to 60 ‘outsiders’, allegedly belonging to the local Trinamul Congress unit, had alleged that Ahmed was instrumental behind the incident. With his instructions the ‘outsiders’ entered into the school premises and abused and beat up them, including women teachers inside the staff room.
The victims were protesting against their headmaster’s alleged corrupt practices in connection with financial irregularities in the school for long.
Ahmed is also one of the 15 persons named in the FIR lodged by the victim teachers with nearby police station after the incident.
The HC on Tuesday gave two more days to police to arrest those accused of beating up teachers at the Narendrapur Manmathanath Vidyamandir after the cops failed to carry out Monday’s order to round them up within 24 hours.
Justice Biswajit Basu had issued the new deadline in the afternoon after observing that police could not arrest anybody till Tuesday morning.
The court also directed the superintendent of the Baruipur police district, Palash Chandra Dhali, to appear before it virtually and explain the failure to implement Monday’s order.
Two more persons, he informed the court, have been arrested, taking the number of people behind bars in connection with the assault to four. He, however, did not mention whether the two were among the accused named in the FIR.