Jaipur, June 09: The Rajasthan Police have detained a government teacher for allegedly trying to bribe the Cabinet Minister for School Education, Madan Dilawar, at his Jaipur residence.
As per the Minister, the teacher Chandrakant Vaishnav arrived with a letter, a box of sweets, and an envelope.
The Minister said that he didn’t suspect anything upon seeing the envelope as these are usual with the letters, “thinking it might have someone’s recommendation.
But When my photographer told me that apparently the envelope has money & once we opened, it had Rs 5,000.
Vaishnav, posted as a Level 2 science teacher in Banswara’s Ghatol, was seeking a recommendation for appointment as a writer in the textbook committee for science for Classes 6-8, which comes under the Rajasthan State Council of Educational Research and Training (RSCERT).
Minister said that it is quite painful that someone could think that the Education Minister can take a bribe and act on their request & added that this was also the first time he saw this person.
Vaishnav, now suspended, is now being questioned by the Jaipur Police.
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