The Karnataka Police have registered a First Information Report (FIR) against the principal and management of a private school in Bengaluru, following serious allegations by parents that the school secretly transferred several Class 10 students to a government school to boost its Board exam pass percentage.
The FIR, filed by the High Grounds Police, comes after complaints from parents who say the unauthorised transfers caused at least 10 students to fail the Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) exams due to missing internal assessment marks.
Deepika, one of the affected students, told reporters that she had been enrolled at the private school since Lower Kindergarten. According to her, school authorities informed students during the hall ticket distribution that their exam centre was elsewhere and instructed them to write the exams at a government-run Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) school.
It was only after the results were released that Deepika discovered her marks card lacked internal assessment scores. “We approached the school, but received no explanation. When we requested a transfer certificate, the management directed us to the BBMP school,” she said. “I would have passed if my internal marks had been included. The same thing has happened to ten of my classmates.”
Parents allege the children were officially registered at the BBMP school—without attending a single class there—which led to them being marked absent for internal assessments. As a result, they received no internal marks, significantly impacting their final results.
Adding to their grievances, parents claimed they had paid tuition fees to the private School, unaware that their children had been officially transferred. Some also accused the school of falsely listing the students as orphans in official records.
Authorities are investigating the incident, and police confirmed that action would be taken based on the findings.
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