Pelted with eggs, tomatoes by angry students for defaming their varsity
Patna : Delhi’s former law minister Jitender Singh Tomar faced angry students on Friday when he was brought to Tilka Manjhi University in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district, some of them threw eggs, tomatoes at him, police said.
“Raising slogan against Tomar for defaming name of their university, angry students threw eggs, tomatoes at him and tried to attack him also but Delhi Police managed to rescue him,” said a district police official in Bhagalpur, about 200 km from here.
Early on Friday, Tomar was first brought to Bihar’s Munger district for interrogation in connection with the ongoing probe into his alleged fake law degree. “A Delhi Police team brought arrested minister Tomar to Munger for interrogation into his fake law degree,” said a district police official in Munger, about 170 km from here.
Police said Tomar was grilled at Hotel Rajhans in Munger. “Delhi Police team have collected evidences in the case.”
During interrogation, Tomar told police that for the sake of adding ‘advocate’ before his name, he took the help of a lawyer friend and enrolled himself in the law college in Munger.
“Delhi Police team interrogated R.K. Mishra, principal of the law college in Munger in fake degree case,” the police officer said.
He was arrested last Tuesday following an investigation into a complaint by the Bar Council of Delhi that Tomar had obtained a fake law degree from the Institute of Legal Studies College in Munger. Tomar is currently in police remand for four days. —IANS
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AAP to take up Smriti Irani,Katheria cases
New Delhi: Under attack over the arrest of former Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar on charges of forging his degrees, the Aam Aadmi Party on Friday said it will ‘highlight’ the alleged ‘discrepancies’ in educational qualification of Union ministers Smriti Irani and Ram Shanker Katheria. The party’s latest salvo came on a day it distanced itself from Tomar saying Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was ‘upset’ with him, and referred his case to the party’s internal Lokpal. He may face expulsion, sources said.
“We have referred the case of Tomar to the party’s internal Lokpal. But we would also like to see the Delhi Police Commissioner probing the charges of false educational qualification against Union ministers Smriti Irani and Ram Shankar Katheria considering police’s new found energy,” senior leader Sanjay Singh
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