{"id":37573,"date":"2015-04-28T06:44:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T06:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=37573"},"modified":"2015-04-28T06:44:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T06:44:31","slug":"row-over-degree-delhi-law-minister-certificate-fabricated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/row-over-degree-delhi-law-minister-certificate-fabricated","title":{"rendered":"Row over degree: Delhi law minister certificate &#8220;fabricated&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/Jitender-Singh-Tomar.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" data-attachment-id=\"37574\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/row-over-degree-delhi-law-minister-certificate-fabricated\/jitender-singh-tomar\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/Jitender-Singh-Tomar.jpg?fit=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,450\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Jitender Singh Tomar\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt; 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the affidavit placed before a bench of Justice Rajiv Shakdher, said.The university was responding to the notice issued to it on a plea alleging that Tomar got himself enrolled as an advocate on the basis of a &#8220;false and bogus&#8221; graduation degree.The court had also sought reply from the Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University (UP), from where the law minister said he had graduated in science.The Bar members of Delhi, who wanted to be impleaded as a party in the petition, informed the court that they have received information from Avadh University that Tomar&#8217;s graduation degree is allegedly &#8220;fake&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Law minister Jitender Singh Tomar&#8217;s provisional certificate is &#8220;fabricated and does not exist in the institution&#8217;s record&#8221;, the Delhi High Court was on Monday told by a Bihar-based university from where he claimed to have done his law education.Tilak Manjhi Bhagalpur university in Bihar placed before the court its enquiry report stating that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[27629,32421,32422,31987,32420],"class_list":["post-37573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-delhi-law-minister","tag-delhi-law-minister-certificate-fabricated","tag-delhi-law-minister-jitender-singh-tomar","tag-featured","tag-row-over-degree"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Row over degree: Delhi law minister certificate &quot;fabricated&quot; 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