Over the next four days, Delhi’s former Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar will be asked to “recollect and relive the most basic events of his academic life” in the interest of ongoing investigations relating to his alleged fake degrees.
A senior police officer added that investigators will also “advise the academic institutions involved to take criminal action against the former Minister in the interests of their reputation”.
“The only way to establish whether he [Mr. Tomar] was a student at Awadh University in Faizabad, Tilkamanjhi University in Bhagalpur and K.S. Saket Post-Graduate College in Ayodhya is to ask him to provide details and a narrative over and above the documents he has produced,” an officer added.
“He will be taken to each city and asked to relive the most basic details about his stint at each of these, such as where he stayed while studying, the names and identities of his teachers, friends, union leaders and other events from his academic life to prove the authenticity of his claim.”
Mr. Tomar’s journey, a source said, will start from Lucknow railway station. He left for Lucknow from the Capital around 11 p.m. and is expected to arrive there at 8 a.m.
Once at the platform, he will be expected to take police officials escorting him to the academic institution he claims to have attended.
He will be accompanied by the policemen, who will also profile him psychologically as he recalls his college days.
According to the police, K.S. Saket Post-Graduate College in Ayodhya, from where the former Minister allegedly obtained his B.Sc. degree, told the investigators that his name does not exist in the college admission register and nor were these found in the records of the university.
Similarly, the police claim, the provisional LLB certificate in his name, allegedly issued by the Tilkamanjhi University in Bhagalpur reported to be fake, with the roll number mentioned in the provisional certificate found allotted to another student, besides “other discrepancies”.
Meanwhile, a source said, investigators will solicit criminal complaints from the Universities involved, based on apprehensions of a fake degree racket.
“Such rackets are usually found to be in operation at the college-level, right under the nose of the University concerned,” the officer added.
