NSUI leader submitted fake degree: DU official
New Delhi, Sept. 24: NSUI national secretary Akshay Kumar allegedly submitted fake documents to secure admission in the Department of Buddhist Studies, a Delhi University official said on Monday, amid controversy over alleged fake degree case of Dusu president and ABVP’s Ankiv Baisoya.
The official said the matter came to light after the department got verified in January this year degrees of all students who had enrolled for Ph. D courses.
It was found that Kumar, who was also elected as the joint secretary of Delhi University Students’ Union in 2010, had allegedly submitted fake MA ( English) marksheets, he said, adding an FIR was registered at the Maurice Nagar police station in north district by the Department on March 16 this year.
According to the FIR filed by the Department of Buddhist Studies, Kumar had enrolled for the PhD programme in March 2017 and had submitted MA ( English) marksheets from Manav Bharti University in Solan district of Himachal Pradesh. His marksheets were sent to the university which denied issuing them, the department has alleged in the FIR.
The official said the department will now take Kumar’s matter to the Departmental Research Committee with a copy of the FIR and alleged forged documents and a recommendation will be made for the cancellation of admission.