Three fathers have accused a school principal of sodomising their sons.They have also charged him with threatening to expel their sons if he was exposed. However, Manoj Kalbalia, principal of Mother International School, Madhupur block in Deoghar district, said the allegation was false and fabricated to malign his image in public. “It is a conspiracy to get my school closed,” he added.

But in a joint complaint with the police, Mahadev Yadav, Bhushan Prasad and Chintamani Mandal, fathers of three class II students, alleged that Kalbalia had sodomised their sons.

These boys reside in the school hostel. “They told us that the principal often called them and had sex with them separately,” alleged the fathers in their FIR filed on Friday.