India, Oct. 18 -- Beed police have registered a case against the headmaster of Champawati Primary School for allegedly manipulating student records on the government's Unified District Information System for Education (U-DISE) portal by adding three students whose names did not appear in the school's original admission register. The alleged manipulation was suspected to have been aimed at protecting teachers' posts, police said on Saturday.

The case was registered at Shivajinagar police station on October 15 against Sarang Joshi, 35, following an inquiry by education department officials. He has been booked under Sections 318(4), 336(3), 340(2) and 335 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).

According to a complaint filed by Pranita Ganga...