Schools admit students falsely claiming CBSE approval, 4 held

Four persons of three schools here have been arrested for allegedly admitting hundreds of students after falsely claiming that the institutes were affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).
Krishna Kant Dholakiya of K G Dholakiya School, Rashmikant Modi of Modi School, and Father Paul and Father Wilson of Saint Mary's School were arrested following complaints by parents, Assistant Commissioner of Police Harshad Mehta said.
Parents approached the police following media reports that these schools had no CBSE affiliation, contrary to what they had been led to believe.
The school authorities misled them so as to charge higher fees than the institutes affiliated by Gujarat Secondary Education Board, the parents said.

Dholakiya School claimed to have CBSE affiliation from 2011-12, while Modi School and Saint Mary's School claimed to have it for the last couple of years. However, all the three schools failed to produce any proof, the police officer said.
The schools, in fact, were found to have forged some documents to mislead the parents, he said.
Some of the parents had also met Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani in this regard, who had assured that their children would be accommodated in other CBSE schools.