Agartala, June 15: Police arrested two students of the reputed Shishu Vihar school in the heart of this town yesterday after they came to school in a drunken condition and started misbehaving with the girls in their class.

Headmaster of the government-run school, Nikhil Biswas, said two students of Class XII, Sumit Sarkar and Nilotpal Debbarma, entered their classroom in a highly inebriated condition and started misbehaving with girl students.

A group of students later complained to the headmaster and informed him of their unruly behaviour. ?I called them in and questioned them in the presence of other senior teachers, but they started abusing me and the teachers. I was forced to call the police and have them arrested,? Biswas said.

However, he said this was an isolated incident in the school, which had a high rate of success in the examinations conducted by the Tripura Board of Secondary Education. Shishu Vihar secured six positions each in the merit lists of top ten in Madhyamik and Higher Secondary examinations this year.

However, the guardians? association is refusing the buy the principal?s argument. The association is planning to meet the chief minister to discuss the growing indiscipline among some students. What has emerged as the sore point is the reputation of the school as the best in Tripura in terms of results achieved in the board examinations.

?During the past 12 years, the school has been consistently securing five to six positions in the top ten in Madhyamik and Higher Secondary examinations. But that is more due to the hard work of the students and guardians.

The school can hardly take credit for this,? Gurusday Dutta, secretary of the guardians? association, said. He said drastic action needed to be taken to restore discipline in the school.

A source in the school said students indulging in gross indiscipline like this was ?nothing new? in the school. ?There have been many incidents when students insulted their teachers openly, but the headmaster kept silent or advised the teachers to adjust,? a source said, adding that there is also a corrupt racket among teachers embezzling funds meant as stipends for students.

?This year, a student belonging to the Other Backward Classes (OBC) community was deprived of his legitimate dues in stipends because of a corrupt chool clerk,? the source said.

He held school education minister Keshav Mazumder responsible for this, saying he has ?packed? the school with his followers in the CPM-dominated teachers? association and they were having ?a free run?.

?Most of the government teachers consider it a privilege to work in the prestigious Shishu Vihar school, but only those loyal to the school education minister are posted here,? said a senior teacher of the school.