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ACB officials nab acting headmaster of Kolhapur school for accepting bribe

Kolhapur, Apr 17 (UNI) Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials today arrested the acting headmaster of Kolhapur Municipal Corporation's (KMC) school no-24, for accepting a bribe of Rs 3,000 for giving a school leaving certificate.
The arrested person, identified as Sanjay Jaysing Narvekar (52), is the acting headmaster of Shelaji Vannaji Vidhyalay, KMC school no 24, Ravivar Peth, in the city.
The ACB in a press release, said the complainant had applied for school leaving certificates of his father and his (father's) five brothers (complainant's uncles).
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