Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar Resigns

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NEW DELHI: Jitender Singh Tomar, Delhi's law minister, has resigned on Tuesday after a Delhi court sent the minister to four-day police custody in an alleged fake degree case.

Earlier in the evening, metropolitan magistrate Navjeet Budhiraja allowed Delhi police to quiz Tomar in custody for four days. Tomar was arrested by the Delhi Police this morning and taken to city's Hauz Khas police station.

Police sought his custody saying his educational certificates relating to law degree were "fabricated" and he was required to be taken to Faizabad in Uttar Pradesh and Bhagalpur in Bihar to ascertain his educational qualification.



Police told the court that the educational certificates which Tomar claims to be true were fabricated and during their initial probe, the authorities who signed those certificates have denied their genuineness.

The investigating officer (IO) told the court that on the basis of a complaint given by Bar Council of Delhi (BCD), a preliminary enquiry was conducted and after taking reports from concerned universities, an FIR was lodged in the case.

Opposing the police's plea, senior advocate HS Phoolka and advocate Rajiv Khosla, who appeared for Tomar, said that police arrested the minister without compliance of the provisions of the law and no notice under section 160 of the CrPC was served to him prior to his arrest.