In yet another incident of campus violence in West Bengal, the principal of a State-run college at Jhargram in Paschim Medinipur district was assaulted on Saturday allegedly by supporters of the student wing of the Trinamool Congress
Kishore Kumar Rari, principal of Jhargram Raj College and a few other teachers were assaulted when they tried to intervene during a scuffle between two groups of students.
“I thought it was my moral responsibility to intervene in the altercation between a section of students along with some outsiders and those residing in the college hostel,” Mr. Rai, said.
The district vice-president of the student wing of the Trinamool Congress, Soumen Acharya, attacked him inside the college, he added.
The college authorities had called a meeting of different student unions prior to the holding of student elections at the institution when the incident occurred.
Two students were also injured in the scuffle and were admitted to a district hospital.
