Police lathicharge Jamait supporters

Kolkata, Mar 19 (UNI) Eleven people, including three policemen and two journalists, were injured when members of Jamait-E-Ulema-I-Hind clashed with the police during a law violation programme in protest against the Nandigram police firing in the city's Esplanade area today.

Police burst two rounds of tear gas shells and lathicharged the mob that gathered under the banner of 'Gana Unnayan and Jana Adhikar Sangram Samiti(Associastion for people's development and people's rights)' when it threw brickbats and went on a rampage, damaging several buses in the nearby depot.

Three policemen and two journalists sustained injuries in the brickbatting while six demonstrators were injured in police lathicharge.

Police said though the agitators violated prohibitory orders in an attempt to move to the Raj Bhavan, they were not ''deemed to be arrested.'' However, the Jamait claimed that thousands of its members, including President Siddiqullah Chowdhury, were arrested.

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