Delhi Police seek 5-day custody of Tomar in fake degree case

New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Tuesday sought in a court here five-day custody remand of Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar, arrested in an alleged fake degree case, saying his educational certificates relating to law degree are "fabricated".

Police told Metropolitan Magistrate Navjeet Budhiraja that the educational certificates which Tomar claims to be true were fabricated and during the initial probe, the authorities who have signed those certificates have denied that the same were genuine.

"Everything(documents) is something which either is denied by the institution or we don't know as to how these documents came into light. For this we need Tomar's interrogation," the police told the court.

"According to him (Tomar), all these documents (educational certificates) are allegedly true but all those who allegedly signed these documents say they have not signed it," police said.

Opposing the police's plea, senior advocate HS Phoolka and advocate Rajiv Khosla, who appeared for Tomar, said that police has 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.

The court after hearing the arguments reserved the order.

Alleging that police was biased against Tomar, the defence counsel said, "their job is to fix this man and teach him a lesson. This shows total bias probe by the agency. They don't want to arrive at a truth".

"After picking me up, the police is asking me to give them the degrees which I have. This is a case where there is a blatant high-handedness... This is a black day in the country and if this 'police raj' will go on, I must say no one is safe," Phoolka said.

The counsel told the court that no police remand should be granted as the accused has always cooperated in the probe and there was no apprehension that he would either abscond or tamper with the evidence.