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Jitender Singh Tomar fake degree row

Published: 10 Jun 2015 - 02:45 pm | Last Updated: 13 Jan 2022 - 04:24 am

 

New Delhi--Delhi Police is probing the possibility of an organised racket behind the alleged fake degrees of AAP leader Jitender Singh Tomar who was on Wednesday taken to Faizabad in Uttar Pradesh for gathering more evidence in the case.

“Our team has just reached Faizabad. There our Investigating Officer will take help of Mr Tomar in gathering evidence from there and whatever on-spot verification will be needed will be done,” Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi told reporters here on Wednesday.

Tomar, who quit as Delhi Law Minister after his arrest on Tuesday, claims to have done his BSc from RML Avadh University, Faizabad. Police has taken him there for an on the spot verification and questioning, sources said.

Police may also take him to Munger in Bihar and repeat the exercise there.

Tomar had claimed to have completed his LLB degree from VNSL Studies, a law college affiliated to Tilak Manjhi Bhagalpur University of Bihar.

Investigators are now trying to ascertain as to who made these alleged forged documents and whether an organised gang is behind it.

INDIAN EXPRESS