Dehradun social welfare officer Anurag Shankhdhar registered a complaint against the president of DAV (PG) College Students’ Union Rahul Kumar and 25 students of the college for their alleged involvement in locking the district social welfare office on July 25. After the complaint was lodged on July 29, police registered a complaint against the accused under sections 147/332 of IPC at Dalanwala police station on Saturday. Works in the department were adversely affected, reported Sankhnad.
Dalanwala police station officer Yashpal Bisht said that a team led by Mahipal Singh Rawat has been formed and they are investigating the case. No arrest has been made so far, he added. However, Rahul said that being a College Union president, he had staged a protest at social welfare department demanding an inquiry into the alleged scholarship scam to the tune of Rs 7.5 crore in 2015 in the college. The college principal had registered a complaint at Dalanwala over scholarship scam but nothing has happened so far. He had met the social welfare minister Yashpal Arya but again nothing has happened. According to Rahul, along with students, he had protested at social welfare department over the same issue in the second week of July and social welfare department officer assured him of conducting an inquiry over the same issue within 10 days but nothing has happened. He again led a protest at Social welfare department on July 25/26 and forcibly shut down the office and after two hours of the protest, office was opened. He said,” Today I knew that a case has been registered against him and other students over the same issue.” However, Social Welfare officer Anurag Sankhnad was not available over the phone.