The teacher, Savita Satasiya, was allegedly beaten up in the school premises on Friday by one Kamlesh Patel, a school employee, on the behest of Munsukh Singada, a school management member.

The parent body of the SSMKPSS, the Gujarat Rajya Manya Khangi Prathamik Shikshak Sangh (GRMKPSS), will in the meanwhile make representations to the home and education ministers in Gandhinagar to protest against the alleged assault.

The SSMKPSS on Saturday had called for an urgent meeting to chalk out the further course of action and also met District Education Officer P N Dave to apprise him of the situation. It was decided at the meeting that while teachers would abstain from work from Monday, a more severe agitation will be embarked upon from July 12.

A police complaint was however not been filed by the teacher or the Sangh, who claim that they are being ``pressurised'' for not doing so. Talking to Express Newsline on Sunday, Deepak Patel, president of the SSMKPSS, said, ``The Sangh will instead directly lodge a complaint in the district and session court on Monday as we really do not expect much to be done by the police. The management is politically influential.''

Meanwhile, the SSMKPSS, which was to begin an intensive agitation programme for private primary teacher's rights at the collectorate from Monday, has decided to postpone the agitation to July 12 on the request of the DEO. ``He told us that he was too busy with the class XI admissions and we can wait for a week,'' Patel stated.

Patel also dismissed the ``mischievous'' statements made by the management that the teacher had resigned from the school before she was allegedly assaulted. ``This is absolutely false and instead, attempts were made to remove her from the school, for which we have been protesting already,'' Patel maintained.

While the SSMKPSS has been waging a long-standing struggle with a number of private school managements for the past few years over teachers' rights, its office-bearers have resorted to fasts-unto-death on at least half a dozen occasions in the past year and had to be hospitalised after their condition deteriorated.

Most recent was the protest against the Swaminarayan School management, after Ashok Patil, a Sangh office-bearer and a teacher, alleged that he was kidnapped by four people on the behest of the school management.