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CBI case
against leading Chandigarh school
Tuesday July 05, 2011 01:10:18 PM, IANS
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Chandigarh: The
management of a highly sought after private school in Chandigarh
is in trouble. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has
slapped a case against it for alleged irregularities, sources said
Tuesday.
A case under the Prevention of Corruption Act was registered
against the directors of the Durga Das Foundation (DDF), which
runs the Strawberry Fields World School in Sector 26), and also
against unnamed officials of the Chandigarh administration.
CBI sources said DDF director and socialite Atul Khanna and his
father Brij Khanna have been booked in the case. They have been
accused of conniving with senior officials of the administration
to get more land allotted than sanctioned.
The Khannas are an influential family here and their DDF also runs
the Strawberry Fields Kindergarten School in Sector 24.
CBI had Monday raided the premises of both schools as also Khanna
family residence in upscale Sector 9 here.
The Strawberry Kindergarten School has been running for over two
decades from a campus allotted to Bharat Sewak Samaj, an
organization for social and cultural activities.
CBI, which registered a preliminary enquiry against the school and
its directors in January and also raided the premises in March,
has said the school authorities, in connivance with Chandigarh
administration officials, had transferred the control of the
Sector 24 campus to the DDF.
"The kindergarten school campus was never allotted by the
administration as a school site, nor was its change of land use
ever allowed to convert it into a school. The school has been
running there illegally for over 20 years," an officer of the
city's Estate Office told IANS on condition of anonymity.
CBI says the Sector 24 premises have been "misused" as they were
not being used for the original purpose for which the land was
allotted in 1967.
DDF was later allotted more land in the education zone of Sector
26 in 2003.
CBI sources also say the allotment rates were changed by certain
officers from Rs.18,000 per square yard to just Rs.900 per square
yard by showing that the floor-area-ratio (FAR) had been reduced
from 0.50 to 0.25. This caused a loss of over Rs.2 crore to the
public exchequer in 2003, the sources said.
CBI officials also seized documents from the school offices and
the Khanna home.
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