Teacher files FIR against school for PF

A teacher from a Kurla school filed an FIR against the school for not allowing her to take benefit of her provident fund service (PF) for which some amount of her salary was deducted every month.
Shaikh Gulnaz Bano filed an FIR against Al Barkaat Malik Muhammed Islam English School, where she was teaching from 2008 to 2011.

On May 20 the VB Nagar police station, Kurla registered an FIR under Section 406 (Criminal breach of trust), 420 (Cheating), 506 (ii) (Criminal intimidation with threat to cause death or grievous hurt). Since the day she had joined the school, she used to get varying amounts in hand, always less than the consolidated salary. “The school authorities did not provide me with the account number and on the contrary started harassing and threatening me,” Shaikh said.

However, the school on the other hand has denied all the charges. Imran AR Karnekar, Coordinator of the school, said, “These are all false allegations. The teacher never asked about her PF. She is doing this for media mileage.”

She also approached Forum for Fairness, an NGO. “The school website has stopped working immediately after an FIR was registered. We have also filed RTI to find related information against the school,” said Rajiv Patel, vice president of the NGO.