The arrest of former Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar in a case of an alleged forged degree may open up a Pandora’s Box with the possibility of an organised racket behind the alleged fake degrees.
Delhi Police Commissioner, BS Bassi on Wednesday said: “If the documents were procured that means another person is also involved in making the forged documents. It is important to identify that person as he could be involved in providing fake degrees to others too.”
He further added that it seems that some organised racket is involved behind the fake degree row.
Bassi said earlier experience indicated that those involved in such rackets provide forged documents to many people. Police would seek to identify all those involved and also persons who were given such documents.
“Such malpractices damaged the educational system and police would reach the bottom of the matter,” Bassi added.
Tomar was taken to Faizabad in Uttar Pradesh for gathering more evidence in the case. It is important to mention that on Wednesday, the Avadh University, from where Tomar was allegedly a passed-out, said he had never been its student.
A university spokesperson said a similar reply was given to a query raised under the Right to Information Act.
“On late Tuesday night, Tomar was taken to Faizabad to gather necessary evidences and to do a spot verification. We might take him to Munger in Bihar to investigate about his LLB degree that he has allegedly procured from VNSL Studies, a law college affiliated to Tilak Manjhi Bhagalpur University of Bihar,” a senior police official said.
“After completing the spot-verification, we are planning to quiz him intensively to know about the person from whom he procured the fake degrees,” he added.