Students in uniform vandalising classrooms and administrative offices in Malda school.
In West Bengal, a school that shares its campus with a college became a battlefield today with college students first manhandling the school headmaster and vandalising his office and then school students ransacking an office in the college building.
The headmaster of BSS High School, Azizur Rehman, has claimed Manikchak College students affiliated to the Trinamool Congress of chief minister Mamata Banerjee were behind the incident.
Among the shocking visuals caught on camera, were those of scores of students in uniform with satchels slung on their backs smashing furniture and fixtures with cricket bats. Some stamped angrily on a sign that said "office" and which they seemed to have ripped off a door.
The school students also allegedly beat up a teacher. The police was called in to control the situation.
The school students were reportedly angry that their headmaster had been attacked by college students who use some school rooms for class as the college building is short of space.
For the last two years, the college students have attended classes from 6 to 10 am at the BSS High School, at Manikchak in Malda district. School starts at 10.30 am.
The headmaster had reportedly noticed recently that the college students did not leave as soon as their classes ended, making the school students wait. This morning, he locked up the classrooms to prevent the college students from entering.
The angry college students allegedly attacked the headmaster and vandalised his room. After they left, the school students arrived and retaliated by attacking a teacher and smashing furniture in the college office.
The vice president of the Manikchak College, Dibakar Mishra, has accused the school headmaster Azizur Rehman of instigating the school students. "We will certainly complain to authorities," he said.
Police say they are investigating but no formal complaint has been filed by anyone yet about the incident.
A little over a hundred km away, students seeking admission to the Raiganj University in North Dinajpur district, and their parents, ran in panic when some people - allegedly associated with the Trinamool Congress Chatra Parishad, the students' wing of Bengal's ruling party - stormed the campus with bombs and guns.
Students said the attackers had clashed with members of the Congress's student wing, the Chatra Parishad, which runs the union at the university.
The rival student unions accused each other of hurling bombs.
West Bengal witnessed many clashes between Trinamool supporters and those of the Opposition Left yesterday, during a bandh or a strike called by trade unions.