Fake degree: Tomar's police custody ends today, to be produced in court

June 13, 2015 10:34

Aam Aadmi Party MLA Jitender Singh Tomar, arrested for allegedly furnishing fake educational degrees, will be produced before a court in Delhi's Saket area on Saturday.

The MLA from Delhi's Trinagar constituency and a first-time minister, was remanded in four-day police custody by a Delhi court on Tuesday.

Delhi Police has claimed that a nearly month-long investigation found that Tomar not only submitted fake science graduation degree and law mark sheets to register with the Bar Council of Delhi but forged a migration certificate also.

He was arrested following an investigation into a complaint by the Bar Council of Delhi that Tomar had obtained a fake law degree from the Institute of Legal Studies College in Munger.

In the dock over his alleged fake degrees, the former AAP minister was taken to Bihar's Munger district from Faizabad on Friday for verification of his law degree.

49-year-old Tomar, who quit as Delhi Law Minister after being arrested on charges of furnishing false degrees, was confirmed to have passed law examination in 1998-99 from a Bihar college.

Officials present during the questioning of Tomar, who was brought from Delhi by police at Biswanath Law College in Munger, said on condition of anonymity that college registers revealed that the former minister had enrolled in it under roll number 10136 in 1994-95 session.

It was also found that Tomar had appeared for the law examination in 1994-95 and 1995-96 sessions but did not appear in 1996-97 as he had failed. Later, he appeared again in 1998-99 and got the degree, the officials said.

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