Updated on Friday, July 10, 2009, 22:47 IST

Lalgarh, July 10: Students of a high school today locked up classrooms, being used as camps by security forces who were engaged in anti-Maoist operations at Lalgarh in West Midnapore, in protest against disruption of studies, prompting the West Bengal Government to announce that the forces would be moved out within two weeks.

Students of Binpur High School locked up classrooms, which a company of the Kolkata police was using as a camp, as a mark of protest since their studies were being affected.

The police then resorted to a lathi-charge to disperse the students and unlocked the classrooms.

Meanwhile tribal leader and People's Committee against Police Atrocities chief Chhatradhar Mahato told news agencies from an undisclosed destination, "Though the administration has promised to evacuate educational institutions, security forces and the police have been occupying the schools which have made students suffer."

Later, Home Secretary Ardhendu Sen said in Kolkata, "The security forces will move out of schools in Lalgarh in two weeks."

The schools were being used as camps by security forces and police since last month.

Bureau Report