Vice Principal of college accused of pocketing Rs 20 lakh from students' fee

NT Correspondent | NT

Bengaluru: The city police have registered a case of cheating and forgery against the vice-principal of a Pre-University College in the city for swindling Rs 20 lakh belonging to the students’ fee from this March to December.

The accused was identified as GV Sambashiva Rao, who was also teaching Mathematics at Shri Chaitanya Techno PU College here.

According to the sources, the accused is on the run since the matter came to light.

The complainant, Yeluri Phani, manager of the college, in his complaint said that the college admitted around 1,750 students and the accused was given responsibility of collecting the fees and remitting it in the college bank account.

It is alleged that the accused instead received the fees in cash and issued fake receipts to students and parents. The incident came to light when the management sent reminders to 23 students for the payments of dues.

They appeared before the management with the receipts of payments which after verification turned out to be fake.

Further verification found that the accused had pocketed a total sum of Rs 20,06,500, said the police.

Based on the complaint, the Vyalikaval police have registered a case and have launched a manhunt to nab the accused.