Two officials from the office of the Block Education Officer (BEO), Haldwani, were arrested by a team of the vigilance department red-handed taking Rs 50,000 as bribe from a complainant in lieu of streamlining the grading of schools in accessible and inaccessible categories.
Acting on the complaint from HCS Rawat, a resident of Haldwani, alleging that the two aforesaid officials from the office of the BEO, Haldwani including Bhagwan Singh Vora, coordinator and Neeraj, a junior official, demanded Rs 50,000 i.e. Rs 25,000 for each, for streamlining the grading system to ensure transfer of his (complainant) wife to an accessible place from the present posting at the Government junior high school, Vinayak, Bhimtal, the vigilance team arrested both the said officials from near Kanta petrol pump, the Rampur Road, Haldwani, on Friday morning, red-handed receiving the money i.e Rs 50,000 from the complainant, said Ashok Kumar Bhatt, SP, vigilance department, Haldwani.
"Following this complaint we conducted an enquiry and when the complaint was found correct, we proceeded for the arrest of the said officials and both the aforesaid officials were arrested subsequently," added the SP, vigilance. In his complaint, complainant Rawat had said that prior to her present posting, his wife had worked as assistant teacher at the primary school, Kamluwaganja, Haldwani, at the primary school, Dhaulakhera, Haldwani, at the primary school, Khera, Haldwani, at the primary school, Chorgaliya, Haldwani and primary school, Dwarahat, Almora. But as the grading of these schools in terms of their accessibility and inaccessibility has not been done properly, so we had demanded from the officials concerned of the education department to streamline the grading of schools first and then take up the transfer matters, Rawat further said.