Haryana cops file FIR against AAP legislator

Times of India‎‎‎‎‎: New Delhi: Tuesday, August 02, 2016.

The Haryana police has registered an FIR against Aam Aadmi Party MLA Commando Surender Singh for alleged forgery and cheating. This follows a complaint by BJP's Karan Singh Tanwar at Jhajjar police station. Tanwar told TOI that he had filed the FIR on July 29 and would soon be exposing the AAP MLA. According to the FIR, Tanwar claimed he had been informed that Surender Singh had forged his BA degree and obtained employment in a government senior secondary school at Jhajjar on the basis of fake degrees and marksheets.

"That upon receiving information under the RTI Act from the director, secondary education, Panchkula, it came to the notice of the undersigned that Singh had forged marksheets of BA from the period of January 1, 2009 to March 31, 2011 of three years. It is worthwhile to mention here that Surender Singh was in regular service in the Army from July 5, 1997 till August 15, 2011 as a nayak. The Haryana government would not have appointed him as a teacher if he had submitted the truth," the FIR reads.

Reacting to the FIR, Surinder Singh told TOI: "Tanwar has already filed two-three complaints on this issue at the same police station in Jhajjar and another one with Delhi Police. After investigation, it was found that the FIR had no merit.

Now, when there is a conspi racy to arrest AAP MLAs, Tanwar must have tho Tanwar must have thought he will push this issue once again. I have done my Class 12 and graduation through correspondence. There was a mistake in my election affidavit where instead of EIILM Sik kim University, I had mentioned only Sikkim University. I have accepted this mistake.This does not mean that I do not have a degree."

Singh had been arrested by Delhi Police in August last year after he was accused of assaulting a New Delhi Municipal Council worker. He had been charged with assaulting a public servant and stopping him from discharging his duty with sections of SCST Act invoked. His driver, Pankaj, and assistant Praveen too were held.