Tomar fallout: Police verifying degrees of 2,000 Delhi lawyers

About 2,000 practising advocates registered with the city’s bar council have degrees from the same college and university as AAP leader Jitender Singh Tomar who is in jail facing charges of faking his academic degrees, Delhi Police sources told HT on Friday. The lawyers who submitted graduation degrees from Awadh and Bundelkhand universities and law degrees from Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University are now on police’s radar and their documents will be scrutinised, officials said, while the bar council too will conduct a verification drive. Police launched a multi-pronged investigation after it arrested Tri Nagar MLA Tomar who was forced to quit as Delhi’s law minister this month for allegedly using forged academic documents — including mark sheets, a BSc degree, provisional documents and a law degree — to enrol as an advocate in 2010.   HT