BJP leader files plea in court, challenges Tomar’s election

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“The respondent No. 1, at the time of filing the nomination, and thereafter has continued to misrepresent himself to be a law graduate and advocate and has thus successful in exercising undue influence over the voters, which amounts to corrupt practice within the meaning of the Representation of the Peoples Act,” the plea alleges, which was filed through advocates Laliet Kumar and Deepak Vohra.

The issue of the validity of Tomar’s LLB degree is presently under court scrutiny, after a petition filed before the High Court in February alleged that Tomar had taken admission into the LLB course at the Bishwanath Singh Institute of Legal Study College in Bihar on the basis of a “fake” degree. The Bar Council of Delhi also recently issued notice to Tomar, on the basis of a reply filed by the Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University in Faizabad, UP, which had said that the undergraduate degree, marksheets and roll number submitted by Tomar at the time of his admission to the LLB course was “completely fake”.

The court of Justice Hima Kohli recused from hearing the plea on Monday.