Aam Aadmi Party legislator Surender Singh has been booked on charges of getting a Haryana government job with the help of fake marksheets in 2012, reported Hindustan Times. The Jhajjar police filed a case against the Delhi Cantt MLA after Bharatiya Janata Party leader Karan Singh Tanwar approached the police against Singh.
Reacting to the development, Singh said the complaint was politically motivated. He said investigators found nothing wrong in his certificates when they [probed the matter twice before. “An RTI query to seek information on my degree was sent to a different university in Sikkim, not from where I have actually graduated. Police have made no inquiry before registering the FIR,” he said.
Singh has been booked under Section 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code. According to Tanwar, who is the former MLA from the area, a Right to Information query has revealed that Singh's highest education qualification, as mentioned in his service record with the army, is senior secondary. He said the accused has, however, furnished forged graduation degree and certificate that date back to a period between January 2009 and March 2011, though he was still serving the force at the time. Singh retired from the army in 2011.
The right-wing party leader said Singh used the fake documents to get the job of a vocational teacher (security) at the Government Senior Secondary School in Jhajjar. “It is not possible for a person to undergo a regular graduation programme being in service and not attending classes and giving examination,” Tanwar said, in his complaint read.
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