NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: A clerk posted at the Govt Boys Degree College, Nausharo Feroze, allegedly misappropriated an amount of Rs250,000 he had collected from students as exam fee, the principal and professors at the college said on Thursday.

The scam surfaced when over 100 students visited the college to collect their admit cards for the Intermediate exams beginning on April 27. They found the clerk, Arbab Soomro, missing and reported the matter to the principal, Mohammed Bachal.

A group of students went to the clerk`s home and asked for his whereabouts.

Soomro`s brother, after ascertaining the matter, accompanied them to the college where some teachers with the permission of the principal broke open the cupboard meant for keeping records. Eighty forms were recovered from the cupboard and later another 25 from the house of the clerk.

The principal and teachers assured the students that the forms would be sent to the board, but asked them to pay the exam fee again, along with the prescribed [Rs1,250/each] late fee, to appear in the exams.

The principal said that Soomro was originally posted at the Govt Degree Girls College but was posted at his college on the `verbal order` of the regional director of education, Abdul Bari Indhar, about two years ago.

In reply to a question, the principal said no case was being lodged against the clerk because the students did not obtain the receipts from him for the fee they might have paid.

There was no trace of the clerk till late in the evening.