India, Feb. 20 -- A vigilance court in Balasore on Friday sentenced a former headmaster and a Village Education Committee (VEC) president to three years of rigorous imprisonment for misappropriating government funds meant for school infrastructure development.

The Special Judge (Vigilance), Balasore, convicted Suresh Chandra Das, former in-charge headmaster of Achutananda Nodal Upper Primary School at Rasalpur, and Govinda Behera, former president of the school's VEC, in a case related to the diversion of funds sanctioned under the Sarba Sikhya Abhijan (SSA) in 2011.

Funds misused, classroom not built According to the prosecution, the accused misappropriated government money released for the construction of an additional classroom at th...