Lucknow, June 10: Former Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar was on Wednesday taken to Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow on way to Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University in Faizabad for the probe into his alleged fake degree, police said.
A Delhi police team brought on the arrested minister on board the AC express. when a short lodge in Charbagh railway station, the police team and Tomar boarded the Farakka specific for their onward journey to Faizabad.
Tomar was earlier regular to be taken to Faizabad by road, however presence of Aam Aadmi Party staff at the train station forced police to alter the itinerary at the second. They boarded a girls compartment of Farakka express for the onward journey.
The AAP leader told reporters here that he was “framed” by the Narendra Modi government within the case, which he was innocent.
“I have done no wrong and am a victim of a political conspiracy,” the previous Delhi law minister claimed.
Tomar, arrested by Delhi police on Tuesday, is presently in four-day police remand.
Meanwhile, RML Avadh university officers said a hunt into the genuineness of Tomar’s degree within the wake of a Right to information (RTI) question allegedly found it to be “fake”.
Univeristy media in-charge S.N. Shukla said the degree as shown by Tomar was fake, and additional that the probe found that the roll range 31331 in 1988 was assigned to a different student, and no9t to Tomar.
