The officials unearthed that around 200 Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) students of the same school have not received scholarship even last year, after the gram pradhan had withdrawn Rs 50,000 earmarked for scholarship in March 2006. An FIR was lodged against Ram Babu Chaurasia, the gram pradhan of Bibipur village, for withdrawing the amount of scholarship but not distributing among the students.

District Panchayati Raj Officer, CN Singh said: “I got a complaint about these anomalies. I verified and found that SC, ST students of the school were not given scholarships. Some of these students have even passed out from the school.” He lodged the complaint at the Banthara Police station on Tuesday.

On the other hand, along with All Indian Democratic Women Alliance even the CPM came out in support of Pool Kumari Rawat, the Dalit cook at the Bibipur School, and asked the authorities not to remove her just because some students are against her.