S- E Delhi school under lens for operating illegally

The owner of a private school in Southeast Delhi’s Pul Prahladpur area was booked by the Delhi police after parents of at least 10 children studying there alleged that the school was operating illegally without affiliation and handing out fake marksheets of the Uttar Pradesh Board. According to the police, the matter came to light when students of the school got marksheets from the Uttar Pradesh Board after clearing board exams. After getting the marksheets, the parents approached the school authorities, who assured them that the marksheets were indeed legitimate. The parents, however, filed a complaint with the police. “We have registered an FIR in the case after verifying all allegations. Further investigation is underway,” said a senior police official. On Friday, an FIR in the case was registered after officials from the UP Board questioned the authenticity of the marksheets. One of the complainants in the case, Dev Singh Tanwar, whose son studied in the school, alleged, “It is one of the oldest schools in our locality. My son studied here from Class I- 10. Initially, the school administration gave us a document — results of Class 10 — and asked us to get my child admitted in a nearby school for his plus two. We admitted our child to the school after paying 50,000. When the new school pressured us to get the marksheet, the old school gave us a copy of a marksheet allegedly from the UP Board. Later, we got to know that it was fake.”