CBSE affiliation fraud: 3 trustees, 2 principals of reputed schools in Rajkot nabbed

Rajkot: In an incident bringing to fore a sensational case of ‘gross violation’ of educational procedures’ and cheating and ‘playing with the future of innocent pupils’, the police in Rajkot city of Gujarat today arrested three trustees and two principals of three ‘well known’ and ‘reputed’ private schools here for ‘cheating’ students and guardians by giving wrong information to them about their affiliation with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).

ACP Harshad Mehta said that trustee and principal of Modi Shcool and St Mary’s School and trustee of Dholakiya Shcool were nabbed today on the basis of four different FIR’s filed by the parents of students of four schools including Golden Apple primary school.

‘During primary interrogation they have admitted that their schools don’t have proper affiliation with the CBSE. They have been booked under section 406 and 420 of the IPC. The parents have alleged that they were fraudulently informed by them that the schools had the affiliation. It has put the future of the students of the schools in a difficult situation,’ the ACP said.

Meanwhile, collector Vikrant Pandey said that the matter was being investigated further and the facts were being cross-checked with the CBSE. Stringent actions will be taken against the culprits in this matter.

The ACP on the other hand said that efforts were on to nab the representative of the management of Golden Apple school also. He said that the cases in this connection were lodged by parents in different police stations last night.

DeshGujarat