Cops, students hurt during TMC's group clash over students' union election in West Bengal college
According to reports, during the students' union General Secretary (GS) election at Islampur College, groups of former and present MLAs of the locality, Abdul Karim Chaudhury and Kanailal Agarwal respectively, engaged in a skirmish with each other.
More than 10 students were seriously injured in the violent clash and rushed to a nearby hospital.
When police tried to intervene into the matter, students and a large number of outsiders pelted stone-bricks aiming at cops and vandalized police vehicles.
Later a heavy police force along with Rapid Action Force (RAF) reached the scene and security personnel restored to lathicharge and lobbed tear gas shells to disperse the fighting students.
A senior official of North Dinajpur district police told IBNS that the situation is completely under control and a heavy police force have been deployed to the area.
However, TMC's rival groups have accused each other for the clash over students' union election at the government aided college.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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