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Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar Arrested In Fake Law Degree Case

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NEW DELHI -- Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar was arrested on Tuesday morning following an FIR lodged against him last night over his alleged fake law degree.

On Tuesday, AAP leader Sanjay Singh said that Tomar was arrested without any prior notice.







AAP spokesperson said that Tomar was arrested like a "terrorist."

The Bharatiya Janata Party has alleged that Tomar’s undergraduate certificate from the Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University in Bihar, where he claimed to have received his undergraduate degree in law, is fake. In April, the university told the Delhi High Court that Tomar's law degree did not exist on record.

“The provisional certificate bearing No. 3687 allegedly issued to Mr. Tomar... appears to be fabricated with an attempt to give a legal status to the issuance of his degree for allegedly [being] a student of VNS Institute of Legal Studies, Munger, which lost its affiliation from 1990,” stated the report from the university.

But Tomar has rejected these accusations, and the Aam Aadmi Party-government has backed its minister's claim of his degree being authentic.

The Delhi police is controlled by the Home Ministry, and Singh's arrest comes in the midst of a power struggle between the AAP government and the centre over governing the capital which is a Union Territory.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who has demanded "full statehood" for Delhi, has locked horns with Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung over appointments of officials in the capital.

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Ticking off the AAP government on Monday, Jung appointed M.K. Meena as the joint commissioner of Delhi's Anti Corruption Bureau above S.S. Yadav, who, AAP has pointed out, is an existing commissioner of the bureau. Citing sources, NDTV reported that it was Jung who signed the arrest order for Tomar.

Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia accused the central government of creating an "Emergency"-like situation in the capital because it was frightened by the AAP-government's crackdown on corruption.

Sisodia has also questioned the "conspiracy" behind creating a post of joint commissioner when none existing, and filling it with a "favourite" official.







Meena, Sisodia said, was the same officer who had investigated the death of the farmer from Rajasthan at the AAP protest rally in Jantar Mantar, and he had tried to "implicate" him by "falsely" reporting a "suicide as murder."




BJP and the Congress Party have been demanding Singh's resignation since the controversy sparked in April. Congress leader Ajay Maken said today that Singh should be removed from his position.






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