After the Delhi Police recently found out about former Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar’s enrolment with Rajdhani College at Delhi University, it has now emerged that the ex-Minister had also enrolled himself with Shivaji College, situated opposite Rajdhani College.
According to police sources, Mr. Tomar had enrolled himself for a B.Sc course from Shivaji College in 1983, but he dropped out and later enrolled for a BA pass course for the academic session 1985-88 from Rajdhani College.
The documents he had submitted before the Bar Council showed that he attended his B.Sc classes during the same period at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University in Faizabad. “While investigating Mr. Tomar’s academic history at Delhi University, we found out that before taking admission in Rajdhani College, the former Minister had enrolled himself with Shivaji College, but later dropped out,” a senior police officer said.
Meanwhile, in another development, the Delhi Police have found Mr. Tomar’s name in the records of a law college in Munger. The investigators are now looking at the possibility of a racket in the colleges.
“So far, we have been collecting various documents related to the case. Now that we have all the documents and have crosschecked them with the departments concerned, we will focus on unearthing a possible racket being run in the university from where the former Law Minister got his degree,” the officer said.
The investigators reached this conclusion after they found Mr. Tomar’s name in the college records and not in the records of Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University to which the college is affiliated.
“Normally, a student’s name is supposed to be registered with both the college and the university. In case a person forges a degree, he has to register himself with some college in an illegal way,” he added.
Mr. Tomar’s police remand was extended for two more days on Saturday.
