ACB arrests principal, teacher for fraud

The Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) of Delhi government on Thursday arrested the principal and a teacher of Rajender Prasad Sarvodaya Vidyalaya, President’s Estate on charges of fraud and embezzlement of government fund. These teachers were found indulging in corrupt practices in a raid conducted by Deputy CM Manish Sisodia on April 15.

“A case of fraud, under Section 420 and other relevant sections have been slapped against the culprits,” said a spokesperson of ACB. The principal Bishan Lal (57) is a resident of Vaishali in Ghaziabad, while the teacher Shaukat Ali (28) is a resident of Jamia Nagar in Delhi. In the FIR, it has been alleged that these teachers were responsible for not conducting the practical classes of food production in vocational course for class XII, but purchased required items on fake bills. “The school teacher instructed Ali, who was the course instructor to display a video on preparation of cookies once and asked the students to do the project at home. The principal has claimed self-attested bills of several purchases of provisional items including chicken, mutton, onion, sugar, vegetable oil, olive oil, etc, for the purpose of usage in the food production course. It was also noticed that there was not even a gas connection for the last two years and no cooking has ever happened in the school. The stock register was not maintained properly,” added the spokesperson. 

He said in July 2014, it was also found that the principal was illegally drawing salaries of four ghost sanitation workers, while the work was actually outsourced to a private company, which was charging the bill to the President House.