Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar arrested over fake degree case Tuesday June 09,2015

 

Delhi law minister Jitender Singh Tomar was arrested on Tuesday June 09,2015 on charges of allegedly submitting forged law degree while filing his nomination for the assembly polls, in a move that triggered an angry reaction from the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and triggered another bout of confrontation between the Centre and the Arvind Kejriwal government.

The AAP government accused lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung of unleashing an "emergency-like situation". Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia told that even though the issue of the alleged fake degree is still being examined by a court, about 40 policemen swooped on Tomar's office and took him away as if he is a fugitive.
 
An RTI reply had in April revealed that Tomar's undergraduate degree was fake just days after a Bihar-based university told the Delhi high court a provisional certificate he used to enrol as a lawyer was fabricated. A team of the Delhi Police recently went to a Bhagalpur university to probe Tomar's law degree