Former Delhi law minister Jitender Singh Tomar on Wednesday moved the Delhi High Court seeking closure of the fake degree case against him saying he was already facing prosecution in a criminal case on the same issue.
Fake degree case
The application came up for hearing before Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva, who recused from the matter saying one of the lawyers appearing in the matter is known to him.
The matter will now be listed on July 28 before another bench.
AAP MLA Tomar moved an application praying that the petition by advocate Santosh Kumar Sharma be closed since the issue was being probed by the police now.
He said that a criminal case has already been registered against him and he was facing prosecution.
The case was filed as a writ petition before Delhi High Court on February 4 last year, alleging that he had given “false information” in his affidavit while filing his nomination.
In his plea, Sharma has claimed that Tomar had submitted a “fake and bogus” undergraduate degree in science from Avadh University to get enrolled in the Bishwanath Singh Institute of Legal Studies College (BSILS), Munger (Bihar) where he had purportedly studied LLB.
