The woman principal of a girls’ school in Nugegoda was nabbed by Bribery Commission officials yesterday, while allegedly taking a bribe of Rs. 15,000 to admit a to child grade one.
The Commission’s Director Investigations, SSP Neville Guruge, said that the principal was arrested when she took the money at her office yesterday from two officials of the Commission.
He said that the complainants -- husband and wife, both of the Sri Lanka Army -- had gone to the school in order to admit their child to grade one. The school principal had demanded a sum of Rs. 20,000 to admit the child, and asked them to come with the money on the 21st. The couple had bargained and got the principal to reduce the amount to Rs. 15,000.
The couple had agreed to pay the money and then complained to the Bribery Commission, which had sent two officers to the school along with them.
“The suspect was arrested by the officials when the principal’s female peon took the money and left it on the principal’s table,” SSP Guruge said.
He said that the principal was to be produced in the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court today
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