"The reports are absolutely wrong. I intimated the institute's director after I became a minister that I would take salary from the ministry. The salary has, however, been credited to my account by mistake. I have not drawn it," the Minister of State for HRD told reporters here.
Media reports had alleged that Katheria had drawn salary for the month of November without even teaching for a single class at Agra's KM Institute.
The minister strongly denied the charge against him terming it a political conspiracy.
Katheria is a Ph.D holder and a writer with books on social issues and Dalit uplift, among others.