The controversy over the alleged fake degree of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Jitender Singh Tomar fails to end with the police now saying that not just his undergraduate degree, but even the RTI query on his degree is fake.
According to police sources, the former Delhi law minister was taken to four places, including Faizabad in Uttar Pradesh, to verify his B Sc degree from Awadh University.
Sources said that the Awadh University had confirmed that Tomar was never enrolled with them for the B Sc programme. Moreover, the RTI copy on his qualification was fake as no plea was ever filed or answered by the University.
Regarding his law degree from the Vishwanath Singh Institute of Legal Studies in Munger in Bihar, police sources said that though Tomar's name exists in college records, some records were missing or deliberately destroyed.
The college had claimed that some records were destroyed due to termite infestation.
The register at the college is the only evidence of Tomar’s degree as there's no marksheet of the law degree.
The investigators are now likely to summon university officials from Bihar to verify the degree. The police probe is now centred around how a fake degree was used to get enrolment in the college.
Earlier, the law college in Munger, where Tomar was taken by the Delhi Police for confirmation of his law degree, has said that the former Delhi law minister did pass the law examination from the institute.
Things are not very comfortable for Tomar in his party as well, with the Aam Aadmi Party categorically saying that it will not offer any legal aid to the former law minister. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the party is also mulling expulsion of the disgraced leader.
On Friday, the Aam Aadmi Party had, in damage control mode, announced a probe by party’s internal Lokpal into Tomar’s fake degree row.
Senior AAP leader Sanjay Singh had conceded that the controversy over Tomar’s degree has raised questions in the minds of people and they need to be answered.
The Aam Aadmi Party also dragged the names of Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ramashankar Kataria, demanding a probe by the Centre into their alleged fake degrees.
He said that AAP was also seeking legal opinion into the issue, urging Delhi Police to initiate "swift" action against Irani and Kataria, as "it had done in Tomar’s case".
The AAP leader further alleged that as many as 30 per cent of the ministers in the Narendra Modi Cabinet were facing serious criminal charges, but the Prime Minister "does not have time" to act against them because of his "foreign tours".
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