June 01, 2008	Sunday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 26, 1429

HYDERABAD, May 31: Principal and staff of the Government Comprehensive Higher Secondary Boys School, Latifabad-10 staged a demonstration here on Saturday in protest against hoodlums trespassing into school premises on Friday and misbehaved with the schoo staff.

Principal Saeeduddin and others told a news conference at the press club that as the examinations of Civic-II and Bookkeeping was over and process to seal answer sheets was underway about dozen armed hoodlums barged into school and ransacked the premises.

Some of them entered the examinations branch and misbehaved with the principal, teachers and other staff and even assaulted Vice-Principal and In-charge, Basheer Ahmed Arain. They expressed concern over non-deployment of police that day.

The school was being used as an examinations centre for last 30 years and never ever an incident of this nature happened though threats were always issued to the principal and staff by the mafia, they said.

“We always ignored such threats and tried our best to perform the duty honestly and without fear and favor”, they said. They appealed to the Sindh government to provide protection to school staff and examinations centre.

Answering questions, they said that they had filed a written complaint with B-section police station but no arrest had been made so far. Answering another question, they said that they managed to save the answer books and dispatched the same to BISE Hyderabad.