HYDERABAD, Dec 2: Police on Saturday baton-charged candidates appearing for test in the office of the director-general of the Sindh Agriculture Extension for 20 posts of different cadres.

About 3,700 candidates arrived in the office premises and intended to get chance for test-cum-interview in the office.

It led to mismanagement because of small space available in the office.

The candidates tried to enter interview hall in large numbers.

As a result, agriculture authorities called police who on arrival used force to control the crowd.

The candidates got provoked and raised slogans against the officials for denying them opportunity to appear in interview.

A group of candidates tried to enter office of the director which aggravated the situation.

In view of mismanagement, police also stopped the director coordination Abdul Khaliq Soomro from entering the office building which infuriated officials of the agriculture department.

It led to an exchange of hot words between them and police left the venue.

The police force was again called by senior officials of the agriculture department.

Agriculture officials said that interviews of candidates for the posts of chowkidar, steno typist, junior clerk, photographer and watchman were fixed on the same day and there was only one committee of officers to hold interviews.

It led to serious administration problem in the office because they could not control crowd.