Police responded with lathi charges and firing on student processions. The police had to resort to a lathi charge to disperse the crowd. The ruckus continued even after the police reached the spot and resorted to lathi charge. An altercation between the police and the marchers resulted in a lathi charge by police. Sukumaran leads a picket in Secretariat and gets injured in a Police lathi charge. The lathi khela is a traditional Bengali martial art. The popularity of lathi khela is waning. A proverb in some South Asian languages is "whoever wields the lathi keeps the cow". These who rulers must be ancestors of rulers of Lathi State. He made his debut with Prabhat Roy's National Award winning Bengali film "Lathi" (1996). He made his film debut with Prabhat Roy's National Award winning Bengali film "Lathi" (1996). Fighting sports include Kabaddi, Latim and Lathi khela. Even in the districts where lathi troupes once flourished, only several now remain. Members learn karate and "lathi", and receive ideological education. Rash Behari Bose got an education of Lathi Khela in his child at Subaldaha.