Ananova:

Students of a school in India locked up their teachers for the day as punishment for not turning up regularly.

Police officers led by a local magistrate rescued 12 teachers from a classroom at the Jambura high school, near Agartala.

Magistrate Basir Ali told The Statesman: “The students have genuine reasons to be angry, as some teachers invariably come late or never attend classes at all.

"There were charges of some teachers coming to the school drunk and some of them smoking inside classes."

The school authorities have now been asked to submit a report on the students' allegations.