Visakhapatnam: How KV principal admitted 193 ineligible students on fake certificates to earn money
193 ineligible students were admitted on the basis of fake certificates issued by various government departments
By Newsmeter Network Published on 22 Sep 2023 3:36 AM GMT
Visakhapatnam: CBI booked the principal of Kendriya Vidyalaya in Visakhapatnam for allegedly admitting 193 ineligible students by taking huge bribes from their parents.
The students were enrolled on the basis of fake service certificates purportedly issued by various central government departments.
CBI has registered two FIRs against Principal S Sreenivasa Raja pertaining to the admission of 124 ineligible students during the academic year 2022-23 and 69 such students for 2021-22.
In a statement, the agency said Raja conspired with the parents of ineligible students and provided admission to them into various classes without verifying the applications and service certificates and received undue pecuniary advantage to his bank accounts with the State Bank of India and the Union Bank of India through UPI mode.
The irregularities were detected by the CBI during a joint surprise check on May 3 and 4 this year at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Waltair, in order to verify the admissions provided by Raja for 2022-23.
The FIR copy read Raja conspired with parents of ineligible students and provided admissions to ineligible students of various classes and received a pecuniary advantage in lieu of providing the admissions. This deprived genuine students from getting admission into the school. The action against Raja was initiated after getting sanction from the commissioner of the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangthan Nidhi Pandey.
An FIR was filed under section 17 A of the Prevention of Corruption Act,19BB (as amended in 2018) against S Sreenivasa Raja, unknown public servants, and private persons.
