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As large number of institutions were located outside the state so state government took the decision to conduct detailed probe to bring out the truth. An FIR has been lodged against the employee for financial irregularity.With chief minister Jai Ram Thakur and state education minister Suresh Bhardwaj taking a tough stand on the issue, preparations are being made to charge sheet the employee. They added that the said employee was usurping the scholarship amount meant for eligible students for the last five years and some officials of the department were busy protecting him. SHIMLA: With the Himachal Pradesh government getting ready to hand over the investigation into the multi-crore scholarship scam to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), involvement of an education department employee along with some private institutions in the Rs 215-crore scam is being alleged.According to highly placed sources in the government, it has been found that an education department employee posted in Kullu had deposited Rs 13 lakh meant for scholarship into his personal account. This decision was taken after many irregularities came to light during a meeting held to review the find distribution during the previous Congress regime.It was found that some institutions unexpectedly had large number of students enrolled and preliminary inquiry conducted revealed that different institutions were involved in the scam..