Dastardly attack on college principal

Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) elements have exposed their rowdy nature by assaulting the newly appointed principal of Barisal BM College Prof Shankar Chandra Dutta on Tuesday.
We condemn in the strongest term such a dastardly attack on the new principal of the college.
Photographs of the outrageous incident carried by the national dailies say it all. It is extremely revolting to see how an aged person is running for life with hoodlums in hot pursuit. And one shudders to think of the level of moral degradation those youths, in students' and political activists' garb, have reached so that they think nothing of raising their hand against a teacher. This is beyond all norms of civilised behaviour in a society where a teacher is supposed to be treated with respect.
A faction of BCL allegedly loyal to the former principal has been behind the untoward incident. However, the former principal Prof, Nani Gopal Das, refuted such claim as he had already handed over charge to the new principal.
Clearly, the violence was not something that came out of the blue. The factors leading to the day's eruption must have been brewing for some time before it came to a head on the day that new principal was going to take charge. There are already allegations of corruption in various forms including admission business in which some BCL cadres and some other quarters in the college administration had a hand.
One wonders how law-enforcers could drop their guard and allow the violence to happen in such a prime educational institution of Barisal. As some reports suggest the new principal sought protection from the administration, but it has not been provided.
We would urge the police to carry out an impartial investigation and find out the culprits responsible for the attack. They must be brought to book and the victim principal provided necessary protection.