The injured teachers are Shikkhak Karmachari Oikya Parishad Convener Shahjahan Alam Sahju, its Information Secretary Mani Haldar, and Alauddin Bhuiyan, Ranjit Kumar Saha, Shafiqul Islam Bablu, Habibur Rahman and Sharfuddin Shuvra.

Pressing home their 17-point demand, which include 100 per cent basic salary and respectable amount of other allowances from the national coffer, the teachers yesterday brought out a procession after a demonstration at Muktangon in the city. But as soon as they brought out the procession police blocked it.

In the face of police barricade the teachers started marching towards the Central Shaheed Minar when police started clubbing them indiscriminately.

Following the police excess, the teachers staged an instant sit-in programme on the road.

The leaders called for demonstrations in every upazila of the country protesting the police atrocities coinciding with their protests at Muktangon and on the Central Shaheed Minar premises in the capital from July 17 to 22.

Leaders of Jatiya Shikkhak Karmachari Front, led by Kazi Faruk, and Shikkhak Karmachari Oikya Jote, led by Selim Bhuiyan, who are on the streets with more or less the same demands, said they would invigorate their movement in the coming days.

Meanwhile, Bangladesh Samajtantrik Dal, Samajtantrik Chhatra Front and Pragatishil Chhatra Jote condemned yesterday's police attack on the teachers' rightful movement and called upon the government to meet their demands.

Ganamukti O Jatiya Shampad Raksha Shammilita Andolan, a platform for emancipation of people and protection of national resources, expressing solidarity with the teachers' movement. They would form a human chain at Muktangon in the capital today protesting against the police excess on teachers.