kolkata a midnight scuffle on tuesday between dog lovers and the bidhannagar police each side accused the other of instigating the troubleleft several persons with minor injuries and allegations of improper conduct from both sidesaccording to sources several dog lovers led by actors deblina dutta and tathagata mukhopadhyay had arranged for a protest outside the swasthya bhawan demanding the two nurses who allegedly caused the death of 16 puppies be not allowed to resume classes at the nrs nursing collegeaccording to dutta and others they were peacefully protesting several metres away from swasthya bhawan near karunamoyee when the cops came up to them around 1am and asked them to vacate the spotwhen we said we will leave next morning the cops attacked us and slapped one of us we had been protesting for 11 hours without any disruption yet the cops tried to remove us forcibly even when female cops were present the male cops tried to forcibly remove the women protesters they even spoke indecently with women and beat up the male protesters many of whom had to be hospitalized claimed soyeta chatterjee a protesterthe bidhannagar police said the charges were fabricated and it was protesters who behaved badly with women copsthey marched towards swasthaya bhavan and were stopped at the gates as 144 crpc is promulgated around the building the animal lovers continued their protest the police diverted the traffic and did not object to peaceful protest however after midnight few protesters started beating drum causing nuisance in the area matter became serious when a few started passing lewd comments on the lady cops present when the officers went to attend and resolve the issue they were pushed by few agitated protesters a senior police official