Delhi court to pronounce order on Smriti Irani's fake degree case on Oct 6

New Delhi: The Delhi's Patiala House Court will pronounce its order on Thursday on whether to summon Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani's fake degree case for allegedly claiming false educational qualifications in her election affidavits.

Metropolitan Magistrate Harvinder Singh fixed October 6th for pronouncing the verdict on the private complaint of Ahmer Khan, who accused the 

Union Minister of submitting varying details about her educational qualifications in her three affidavits filed before the Election Commission for the Lok 

sabha and Rajya Sabha polls held in 2004, 2011 and 2014. 

Khan, who filed the complaint in April last year, sought action against Irani on the charge of lying on oath about her educational qualifications.

Khan's counsels KK Manan and Anjali Rajput alleged that the irani declared herself to be a 1996 batch graduate from Delhi University's School of 

Correspondence in her affidavit filed for the 2004 Lok Sabha election from Delhi's Chandni Chowk constituency.

But in her affidavit for the 2014 Lok Sabha election, when she contested from Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, she allegedly said she did her B.Com. (Part I) in 

1994 is from Delhi University's School of Open Learning.

Khan said that in yet another affidavit filed on 11 July, 2011 for the Rajya Sabha election from Gujarat, she affirmed her highest educational qualification 

was B.Com (Part I) from Delhi University's School of Correspondence.