Date:07/10/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/10/07/stories/2008100751790300.htm

Tamil Nadu

10 injured in group clash

Staff Reporter

VANIYAMBADI: Ten persons were injured when two groups clashed over the transfer of the headmaster of the Vellakuttai panchayat primary school in Alangayam union near here on Monday.

The police said Durai, headmaster, was transferred against his will. When Assistant Education Officer Vijayalakshmi visited the school, two groups came over there. One of the group, headed by Arumugam, supported Durai. It questioned why he was transferred against his will. The other, headed by Parent Teachers’ Association president Vijay Kumar, was in favour of the transfer. After heated arguments, the groups clashed. Then they blocked traffic on the Alangayam-Vaniyambadi Road, near Vellakuttai.

The Alangayam police persuaded them to withdraw the protest. The injured were admitted to the government hospital at Vaniyambadi.