Janjivan Bureau
NEW DELHI : Former Delhi Law Minister Jitendra Singh Tomar was taken to Vishwanath Singh Institute of Legal Studies at Munger in Bihar to verify his claim that he obtained his law degree from an institute there.
In April, Bihar’s Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University, from where Tomar claimed to have obtained his law degree, told a court that the provisional certificate was not “genuine” and didn’t exist in official records. A BJP leader has dragged Tomar to court on charges of lying in his election nomination papers, an accusation that may cost the AAP legislator his seat.
In a new twist to the controversy, Munger college principal RK Mishra, however, said Tomar may have passed the three-year LLB from the institute between 1994 and 1999.
“Records say that someone by the name of Jitender Singh Tomar took admission here. But whether this Jitender Singh Tomar is indeed the same person, we cannot ascertain because there is no photographic record,” he told.
Mishra said it is not possible for the university to verify the degrees of past students unless there is an official complaint.
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