A day after facing protests at a Bihar college where he was taken as part of probe into the fake degree case, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Jitender Singh Tomar will on Saturday be produced before a Delhi court.
The law college in Munger, where Tomar was taken by the Delhi Police for confirmation of his law degree, has said that the former Delhi law minister did pass the law examination from the institute.
However, it has failed to convince the investigators, who are now scrutinising the claim of the university. According to police sources, Tomar’s graduation degree, which is the base of his law degree, is actually fake.
Things are not very comfortable for Tomar in his party as well, with the Aam Aadmi Party categorically saying that it will not offer any legal aid to the former law minister. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the party is also mulling expulsion of the disgraced leader.
On Friday, the Aam Aadmi Party had, in damage control mode, announced a probe by party’s internal Lokpal into Tomar’s fake degree row.
Senior AAP leader Sanjay Singh had conceded that the controversy over Tomar’s degree has raised questions in the minds of people and they need to be answered.
The Aam Aadmi Party also dragged the names of Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ramashankar Kataria, demanding a probe by the Centre into their alleged fake degrees.
He said that AAP was also seeking legal opinion into the issue, urging Delhi Police to initiate "swift" action against Irani and Kataria, as "it had done in Tomar’s case".
The AAP leader further alleged that as many as 30 per cent of the ministers in the Narendra Modi Cabinet were facing serious criminal charges, but the Prime Minister "does not have time" to act against them because of his "foreign tours".
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