Police charge baton on Ctg school students

Some 18 students were injured yesterday afternoon when police allegedly charged baton on them at GEC intersection of the port city as they were demonstrating there protesting a government decision to increase the number of creative questions in SSC and HSC examinations without increasing time, alleged the students.

Of the injured, two had their hands broken in the baton charge, who were admitted to a private hospital, alleged a student of the city's Muslim High School.

The other injured were given primary treatment, he said. 

Denying the allegations of charging batons, Officer-in-Charge of Khulshi Police Station Nizam Uddin said, "Three to four hundred students of different schools tried to block the roundabout. When police barred them from doing so, they defied and came in the middle of the intersection."

"The students left the area when police started blowing whistle to disperse them," claimed the OC.

The students have been protesting the decision to increase the number of questions from six to seven since February, reasoning that it will be very difficult for them to do well in the examinations unless the time is increased.