The FIR has been lodged at the Sadar police station by the Education Department’s PEO (Panchayat Education Officer) Anil Gupta.
This teacher couple was posted in the Government Primary School Rajpura located near the city for the last 20 years. Vishnu Garg was posted in this school since 1996 and his wife Manju Garg since 1999. Instead of teaching the students themselves, both of them kept dummy teachers in the school. In 2017 also, during a surprise inspection, the misdeeds of these teachers were caught, but the matter was hushed up by stopping the salary hike.
After the formation of BJP's Bhajan Lal government in Rajasthan, the education department has tightened its grip on two dummy teachers. Sadar police station and the education department conducted a joint raid and arrested three other teachers, who were teaching here in place of these two dummy teachers. After this, the teacher couple fled fearing arrest and are still out of the reach of the police.
In this case, Education Minister Madan Dilawar also gave a statement that strict action will be taken against such teachers, which will set an example in Rajasthan. During the investigation, the police asked the education department for information about the salary received by the couple so far. The couple has been given a total of Rs 9,31,50373 (Rs 9 crore, 31 lakh, 50 thousand, 373) by the education department. Vishnu Garg was given Rs 4,92,69,146 (Rs 4 crore, 92 lakh, 69 thousand, 146) and Manju Garg was given Rs 4,38,81,227 (Rs 4 crore, 38 lakh, 81 thousand, 227).
The education department had earlier lodged a case in Sadar police station on the charges of embezzling government funds and taking money by cheating the education department. Panchayat officer of the education department Anil Gupta has lodged an FIR in Sadar police station to recover this amount.
In this case, District Education Officer Piyush Kumar Sharma says that the investigation is going on at the Directorate level. He is not aware of the completion of this investigation. At present, the police and the education department are being strict with this fugitive teacher couple. Now it remains to be seen when the teacher couple gets caught by the police. The teacher couple has a lot of influence in Baran district.