Principal Bishan Lal (57) and guest teacher Shaukat Ali (27) of Rajendra Prasad Sarvodaya Vidyalaya in central Delhi's President Estate have been arrested for allegedly embezzling government money, a senior official said.
During a surprise inspection on April 15, Sisodia, who also holds the Education portfolio, found that fake bills were raised for providing practical training to students in the course of food production.
Students studying food production told the minister they had virtually never been given any relevant information about the subject.
"Students told the officials that the course instructor Shaukat Ali had showed them a video on how to make cookies once and asked the students to do the project at home.
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"Principal Bishan Lal generated self-attested bills of purchase made for food production course but there was no gas connection for last two years," a senior ACB official said.
"The agency supervisor told ACB officials that the company had deployed four sanitation workers. The payment for their work was done by the company, which in turn used to send its bills to the Rashtrapati Bhawan office for payment and not to the school," the official said.
According to the ACB, the school's principal made fraudulent claims by showing payment for five sanitation workers, when only one was working in the primary wing.