Kolkata: Around 40 people, including eight security personnel and 31 protestors, were injured as CPI-M-affiliated youth and student activists, who blocked a crucial intersection in central Kolkata, clashed with the police on Thursday. Nearly 100 protesters have been arrested, the police said.

The Kolkata Police claimed eight security personnel, four of them women, were injured when they were assaulted by the protestors belonging to the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) and Students Federation of India (SFI). They were participating in a "March to Raj Bhavan" to protest alleged corruption in appointment of primary teachers and to press for "transparency in recruitment".