Kolkata: Terrorised policemen were seen hiding behind almirahs and under the table and scampering to use files as protective shields after a group of people said to owe allegiance to West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress rampaged through a police station, a stone's throw from the state police headquarters here Friday.

Enraged over the administration's attempts to evict encroachers from a piece of land owned by the state public works department, a group of slum dwellers residing on the plot - near the Presidency Correctional Home for Women - staged a demonstration and pushed the officials away.