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Court trashes fake degree case against Irani
In a relief to Union Minister Smriti Irani, a trial court here on Tuesday dismissed a plea to issue summon against her for allegedly giving false information about her educational qualifications in her affidavit to the Election Commission of India.Â
​New Delhi: In a relief to Union Minister Smriti Irani, a trial court here on Tuesday dismissed a plea to issue summon against her for allegedly giving false information about her educational qualifications in her affidavit to the Election Commission of India.
The complaint was filed to harass the Minister, the Patiala House district court said. Metropolitan Magistrate Harvinder Singh said prayer for seeking summon against Irani "is dismissed", and observed that the complaint has been filed after delay of 11 years and because the original elections affidavit of 2004 is not available.
The court was hearing a private complaint filed by Ahmer Khan, who accused Irani of submitting varying details about her educational qualifications in her three affidavits filed before the Election Commission for the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha elections held in 2004, 2011 and 2014.
Khan had alleged that the BJP leader 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, when she contested from Delhi's Chandni Chowk constituency.
But in her affidavit for the 2014 Lok Sabha election, when she contested from Amethi in UP she allegedly said she did her B.Com. (Part I) in 1994 from Delhi University's School of Open Learning. In yet another affidavit filed on July 11, 2011, for the Rajya Sabha election from Gujarat, Irani said her highest educational qualification was B.Com (Part I) from Delhi University's School of Correspondence.
