MDU ex-registrar arrested in fake degree scam
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Ambika Sharma
Tribune News Service
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Solan, June 12
Fourth Arrest
- This is the fourth arrest in the case that had surfaced in March
- Earlier, a data entry operator, an assistant registrar and another woman registrar were arrested
A case of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy has been registered
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The police today arrested KK Singh, former registrar of Manav Bharti University (MBU), Sultanpur village, near here, in the fake degree scam. He was directed to join the investigation and was later arrested.
Additional SP Shiv Kumar Sharma said KK Singh worked as a deputy registrar at the university from 2013 to 2015 and later as a registrar since 2015. Currently, he was working at the university’s sister concern, Madhav University, at Udaipur in Rajasthan.
Sharma said KK Singh claimed that he was the registrar of MBU and Anupama Thakur, who was arrested earlier and claimed to be the registrar, was a deputy registrar. He said their claims were yet to be verified.
Sources said as per the probe undertaken till now, he hailed from Howrah district in West Bengal. He claimed to be the holder of Bachelors of Homeopathy degree from Bihar University (1983 batch) and had later done MSc (anatomy) from MBU in 2009-2011, though the university had no authorisation to run such a course.
He had earlier served in institutes offering paramedical courses at Bilaspur and also served as its principal. A probe was underway.
Varsity chairman Rajkumar Rana has applied for anticipatory bail from the High Court and the case will come up for hearing on June 17.
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