India, May 23 -- The Dahisar police on Thursday booked the principal of a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) school and three of her relatives for allegedly cheating a home guard of Rs.2.5 lakh. The principal, Kamlabai Rathod, promised to get the homeguard, Vaibhav Goregaonkar, a government job, claiming she had contacts in the Mantralaya, and refused to return the money taken as bribe when the job did not work out, police officials familiar with the case told Hindustan Times.

According to the police, the 39-year-old home guard, a resident of Dahisar East, met Rathod in 2019 when he was posted in the BMC school where she was the principal. Rathod told Goregaonkar that she could help him get a government job as she was close to the ...