Bribe-taking school principals on the run! Two more nabbed in two days- a monk too arrested !!

(Lanka-e-News- 23.Jan.2016, 4.45PM)  The relentless actions and alertness of the Anti Bribery and corruption commission under the government of good governance had enabled the nabbing of two prinicipals of two schools involved in accepting bribes as well as their accomplices when admitting children to schools.  

The prinicipal of Kegalla Rathwala Mahanaga maha vidyalaya and a monk who works as a clerk in that school were arrested 21 st. The principal was nabbed within the school premises when he was collecting a bribe of Rs.60,000.00 through the robed clerk (monk), to admit a child to grade six.Senior SP Priyantha Chandrasiri in charge of investigations of the Commission said , the suspects are to be produced before the Kegalle magistrate court.

Prior to this incident  the principal , deputy principal and a karyala karya sahayaka of Polonnaruwa service camp free Vidyalaya were taken into custody yesterday (20) .These arrests were made  when a sum of Rs, 7500.00 was being collected of the full sum of Rs. 15000.00 demanded to admit a child to grade one of the school.These arrests too were made within the school premises. The suspects were remanded after they were produced before the Polonnaruwa magistrate .

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