The main door of the closed State Farm Colony High School on Tuesday. A Telegraph picture

Islampur, Aug. 5: The school where police fired 13 rounds in the air yesterday to quell a mob after a campus clash spiralled out of control will remain shut till Thursday.

The officiating head teacher of State Farm Colony High School, Jugal Chakrabarty, said only students of Class X will be allowed to attend classes from Friday. “There is still tension in the area. Students of other classes will be allowed entry when the situation permits. We have also asked for a police picket in the school,” Chakrabarty said. He added that a parent-teacher meeting would be organised when the headmaster returned from leave.

The authorities of the school, located 3km from here, have filed a complaint today. They said seven-eight youths had entered the school and ransacked some classrooms after two boys got into a fight.

“We confined the outsiders and sent word to the police. The law-keepers are aware what went on after that,” the complaint said. A mob, which wanted the school to hand the youths over to them, burnt four motorcycles and damaged two police vehicles. Five men in khaki were injured when around 200 people pelted them with stones.

The Chhatra Parishad filed an FIR today blaming the SFI, the CPM’s student wing, for stoking the violence. They have alleged that SFI supporters were present during the clash with the police and they had also damaged a vehicle yesterday.

The SFI’s local committee secretary Shantanu Bagchi has denied the allegations. “We know about the incident. The Chhatra Parishad is trying to gain political mileage by blaming us,” he said.

Parents and guardians of the students are displeased because of the decision to keep the school shut for the time being. “The teachers were there in school today. They were laughing and chatting and whiling away time. We, on the other hand, are worried that our children are missing out on classes. Not only that, we are apprehensive of what may happen when the school reopens,” said Jogen Das, whose daughter studies in Class VI.

According to the subdivisional police officer of Islampur, David Lepcha, three FIRs have been filed. “One of the complaints was from the Islampur police itself,” Lepcha said.