New Delhi, May 13
The BJP on Wednesday
demanded the arrest of Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar for
allegedly furnishing fake provisional certificate of his law degree and
holding a fake graduate degree as well.
Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) Delhi unit chief Satish Upadhyay demanded Tomar's arrest and an
FIR against him following the Bar Council of Delhi's complaint against
the minister.
"We want Delhi Police to register a first
information report (F.I.R) against the law minister and take appropriate
actions according to the law. Tomar should be arrested now," he said.
"Bar
Council of Delhi's cognizance of Jitender Singh Tomar says that the
degrees are fake. We want to question if more such degrees exist?"
Upadhyay told reporters in a press conference here.
The BJP leader also questioned the reason behind Delhi Police not taking any appropriate action so far.
"Why
police are not taking action even after the complaint and the response
of the universities that documents submitted by Tomar for his enrolment
as an advocate are forged?" he asked.
"Police should not work under anybody's pressure," he said.
"The fake government of Delhi and its fake ministers need to be exposed," Upadhyay said.
The Bar Council of Delhi (BCD) had filed a police complaint against Tomar, seeking probe into his alleged fake law degree case.
In
his complaint letter written to District Commissioner of Police, Hauz
Khas, Prem Nath, Secretary, BCD, Puneet Mittal had said the bar council
had observed that Tomar had enrolled himself in the council as an
advocate by misrepresenting the facts as both the universities stated
that the documents were forged.
The complaint letter said Tomar
had claimed to have obtained a graduation degree from Dr Ram Manohar
Lohiya Avadh University, Faizabad in Uttar Pradesh, which the aforesaid
university claimed to be forged.
Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur
University, Bhagalpur in Bihar said that the provisional L.L.B
certificate bearing serial number 3687, submitted by Tomar at the time
of his enrolment, is a fabricated document, the complaint letter stated.
