Chandigarh, May 3 -- In the first such action, the UT education department suspended principals of 10 government schools on Thursday after a conman managed to enter and operate inside the institutions under their supervision.

The development comes a day after police registered a case against Rajiv Kumar, alias Raju, for duping cleaning staff at these schools after posing as a contractor.

The principals/heads of the 10 schools have been placed under immediate suspension for dereliction of duty and chargesheets will also be issued to them shortly by the department. While the department officials didn't share the names of the schools, people familiar with the matter said they were located in the city's periphery, with three from Dhanas, as...