The school managing committee of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya suspended its principal Kamar Kumar Rajoria and replaced him with the principal of another central school on Wednesday.

J.K. Mahapatra, the principal of JNV in Durgapur, has been given the additional charge to run the school.

Rajoria had been arrested in connection with a child trafficking case.

“The principal has been under temporary suspension and a police probe is on. So, the principal has been replaced by another person. The principal of JNV Durgapur will be in additional charge of the school shortly,” said K Radhika Aiyar, the Bankura district magistrate and deputy commissioner of the JNV Bankura’s school management committee.

Sources said the district had already sent a complete report to the state government on the incident of child trafficking, which would be sent to the Union ministry of education.

Aiyar said they had received a directive from the West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights to continue campaigns in other schools of Bankura against child trafficking.

The police had arrested Rajoria and eight others and rescued five children, including three girls, who were allegedly being trafficked.

The police said the woman, who claimed to be the mother of the five children, had sold the babies for around Rs 2 lakh. Senior police officers said they suspected the existence of a child trafficking racket in the incident.

“We will conduct a vigil on the immovable properties of the arrested people. We will take details of call records to investigate whether the racket is connected beyond the state,” said Dhritiman Sarkar, the Bankura police chief.