The Madras High Court has ordered a police inquiry against a person who claimed to be a law graduate on the basis of a fabricated law degree supposedly issued by Bharathidasan University in 2002. The degree certificate read that he had been conferred a bachelor’s degree in law on successful completion of history examination.
A Division Bench of Justices S. Vaidyanathan and A.D. Jagadish Chandira also found that the Tamil text in the certificate stated he had passed the examination in first class whereas the English text stated that he had secured second class. Suspecting its genuineness, the judges referred the certificate to Bharathidasan University.
The varsity, in turn, replied that the certificate was not genuine and that it was not issued by the university. The judges said, when they confronted the individual, S. Babu of Anna Nagar in Chennai with the reply, “instead of repenting for his act, he had the audacity to claim that he had studied at the Government Law College in Tiruchi.”
