Pabna: Students, teachers and local people on Saturday blocked the Dhaka-Pabna Highway demanding nationalisation of Dr Juhurul Kamal Degree College at Sujanagar.

Officer-in-charge of Sujanagar Police Station M Nur Islam said agitating students and teachers of the college along with the local people blocked the highway from 10:00am, which created a long tailback on the road, creating sufferings to the commuters.

On information, police rushed in and removed the blockade at 11:30am.

A group of teachers, wishing anonymity, said Principle Abdul Latif of the college took a large amount of money from them to manage nationalisation of the college.

But the principle along with a group of teachers, loyal to him, embezzled the money, they alleged.

Earlier on Thursday, teachers and students of the college locked the principle at his room.