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A college in Calcutta usually isn't short of eager candidates for the principal's post but Harimohan Ghose College, outside which a police officer was shot dead in 2013, has struggled to find someone willing to brave its reputation for trouble.
The Garden Reach institute hasn't had a principal in four years. At least on two occasions, empanelled candidates are known to have refused to take up the assignment after realising what they were getting into.
The fracas in February 2013 that led to sub-inspector Tapas Chowdhury being fatally shot isn't the only instance of trouble that seems to be scaring off potential candidates. Five senior teachers whom the state college service commission had offered the principal's post have already refused the job, sources said.
Harimohan Ghose College hit the headlines following the 2013 clash that originated from a dispute over picking up nomination forms for...