Fake degree: Session court to hear Tomar's plea today

June 11, 2015 08:53

A session court in Delhi will on Thursday hear the petition by former Delhi law minister Jitender Singh Tomar challenging his arrest in the alleged fake degree case.

In the application filed before the sessions court on Wednesday, Tomar alleged that police had arrested him in violation of prescribed procedure under the law.

Additional Sessions Judge Sanjeev Jain refused to give an urgent hearing to Tomar's plea and said that the matter will

be heard on Thursday.

49-year-old Tomar was arrested on Tuesday by Delhi Police on a FIR registered on the basis of a complaint lodged by Bar Council of Delhi for allegedly forging documents, including educational degrees, to enrol as an advocate.

He was remanded to four-day police custody till June 13 by a magisterial court.

Police had sought five-day custody of Tomar saying his educational certificates relating to law degree were "fabricated" and he was required to be taken to Faizabad in Uttar Pradesh and Bhagalpur in Bihar to ascertain his educational qualification.

Police had told the court that educational certificates which Tomar claimed to be true were fabricated and during their initial probe, the authorities who signed those certificates have denied their genuineness.

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