Issue of invalid PhD degrees pending with CBI

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 7

The issue of DAV College teachers possessing invalid PhD degrees, which will be discussed at the Panjab University’s Syndicate meeting, is also pending with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

A report by a PU committee on invalid degrees of two DAV teachers will be placed before the Syndicate for action on Saturday.

RK Singla, a resident, had submitted a complaint with the CBI in this regard twice in 2015 and in July this year. Singla said the complaint was submitted by him with around 120 pages of substantiating documents. But the case is still pending with the investigating agency. 

“The documentary evidences which were submitted to the CBI were also submitted to the PU. Later, the PU formed a committee to investigate the issue and came up with their findings,” he said.

The committee constituted by the PU had recently visited the CMJ University in Shillong (Meghalaya) to verify the teachers’ degrees. The committee found the degrees of the two teachers — Mandeep Josan and Gagandeep Singh Brar — invalid.

The committee had called for disciplinary and criminal proceedings against both teachers for allegedly claiming benefit of invalid PhD degrees. 

Both teachers are from the Computer Science Department of DAV College, Sector 10, Chandigarh.