Edu dept staff sells 3,000 books as scrap
Mayiladuthurai: 30.12.2020
Police on Tuesday arrested a junior assistant at the district education department in Mayiladuthurai on charges of selling more than 3,000 state board textbooks, meant to be distributed to government and aided school students, to a scrap dealer. Based on a complaint from the education department officials, the owner of the scrap dealer was also arrested.
According to police, the accused C Meganathan, 44, junior assistant at district education office in Mayiladuthurai, was booked under Sections 381 and 409 (committing theft with respect to any property in the possession of his/her employer). The scrap shop owner, S Perumalsamy, 56, was booked under Section 411 (dishonestly receiving stolen property).
During a revenue department inspection of the shop the illegal dealing came to light. TNN
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