SUKKUR, Oct 23: Hundreds of the students and the staff of government primary school, Achar Ghitti, Sukkur, with the members of Achar Ghitti welfare association on Tuesday staged protest demonstration against the demolishing of the school building and ransacking the furniture and other articles of the school.

According to the school teachers, the school has been demolished by a local trader Abdul Ghaffar Memon and his ally Yaqoob Bhutto with the help and assistance of A-section police.

The welfare association of the vicinity, the staff and large number of primary students of the school called on Sukkur district Nazim Syed Nasir Hussain Shah and SSP Sukkur Din Muhammad Baloch and later staged a protest demonstration in front of the national press club here.

The Nazim and the SSP assured them of taking action in the matter.

SSP Sukkur immediately placed under suspension ASI Nadeem Shah, who was later reinstated on the intervention of the education department officials who had earlier demanded his suspension.

According to the protesting school staff, this school was established in 1943 on a piece of land donated by late Ghulam Akbar Bhutto, brother of former MPA Ghulam Qadir Bhutto, who also built the school building.

A member of his family was allegedly involved in demolishing the school building, ransacking its furniture and taking away its ceiling fans and other articles.

Later ADO primary and the District Education Officer visited the site and assured the area people to take action in this connection.

A-section police registered a case against Yaqoob Bhutto, Ghaffar Memon and the headmaster of the school.