KHAIRPUR, April 4: Five people including two headmasters of government primary schools were booked on Wednesday on charges of selling textbooks.ASI Ghulam Akbar Khaskheli lodged an FIR under section 379, 411 PPC at Sobhodero police station against shopkeeper Ali Dino Kalhoro, Rustam Ali Memon, Aftab Memon, headmaster of government main primary school Khuhra Anwar Hussain Shah and headmaster of government main primary school Gambat Noor Mohammad Memon.

He charged that the accused sold 14 bags of textbooks, which were to be distributed among students free of cost for Rs4,000.

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