KOHAT, June 21: The chairman of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education has said that he will hold an inquiry into the incident of manhandling of a principal by an assistant controller of examination and take stern action against those found guilty.

Speaking at a press conference at his office on Saturday, the board’s chairman Talat Imtiaz Naqvi said if the professors had any grievances against the functioning of the board, they should have contacted him or at least the controller, instead of meeting with a junior officer and that too after the office timings.

The chairman accused some of the local teachers of launching a smear campaign against the board officials for ‘personal interests’ because, according to him, since the establishment of the institution last year efforts had been made to discourage the use of unfair means and appoint honest people to check cheating and corruption in the examinations. He said that according to the policy of the board professors cannot interfere in matters of assignment of examination duties.