The police on Sunday lathi-charged and used water cannons to disburse a large number of agitating teachers who were heading to protest outside Punjab Education Minister's O P Soni residence here.
The police said they were forced to lathi-charge the agitating teachers when they "purposefully" removed barricades that had been fixed at different locations on the route leading to the house of O P Soni here.
There was a scuffle between police and agitating teachers. In the incident, some policemen and a few teachers were hurt. The agitating teachers were dispersed later, DCP Lakhbir Singh.
The teachers' group raised anti-government slogans "for not getting their full pay scale."