On Tuesday, AAP leader Sanjay Singh said that Tomar was arrested without any prior notice.
मंत्री जितन्द्र तोमर से बात हुई बगैर किसी नोटिस या पूर्व सूचना के दिल्ली पुलिस ने उन्हें गिरफ्तार कर लिया हौज खास थाने ले जाया जा रहा है
— Sanjay Singh AAP (@SanjayAzadSln) June 9, 2015Modi ji agar sochte hain wo jail bhej kar, laathi chala kar, Aam aadmi ki awaaz ko daba lenge to ye nhi hone wala: Sanjay Singh, AAP
— ANI (@ANI_news) June 9, 2015AAP spokesperson said that Tomar was arrested like a "terrorist."
The Bharatiya Janata Party has alleged that Tomar’s undergraduate certificate from the Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University in Bihar, where he claimed to have received his undergraduate degree in law, is fake. In April, the university told the Delhi High Court that Tomar's law degree did not exist on record.
“The provisional certificate bearing No. 3687 allegedly issued to Mr. Tomar... appears to be fabricated with an attempt to give a legal status to the issuance of his degree for allegedly [being] a student of VNS Institute of Legal Studies, Munger, which lost its affiliation from 1990,” stated the report from the university.
But Tomar has rejected these accusations, and the Aam Aadmi Party-government has backed its minister's claim of his degree being authentic.
The Delhi police is controlled by the Home Ministry, and Singh's arrest comes in the midst of a power struggle between the AAP government and the centre over governing the capital which is a Union Territory.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who has demanded "full statehood" for Delhi, has locked horns with Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung over appointments of officials in the capital.
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Ticking off the AAP government on Monday, Jung appointed M.K. Meena as the joint commissioner of Delhi's Anti Corruption Bureau above S.S. Yadav, who, AAP has pointed out, is the Additional Commissioner of the bureau. Citing sources, NDTV reported that it was Jung who signed the arrest order for Tomar.
In retaliation, the Delhi government transferred the senior official, Dharam Pal, who had signed the orders announcing Meena's appointment, and asked him to report to the Home Ministry. AAP also prevented Meena from joining his office, and informed him that there is only a post of Additional Commissioner of Police which is presently occupied.
Following Director Vigilance's order sending MK Meena back to Delhi Police, SS Yadav to remain ACB Chief: Delhi Govt
— ANI (@ANI_news) June 9, 2015Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia accused the central government of creating an "Emergency"-like situation in the capital because it was frightened by the AAP-government's crackdown on corruption.
Sisodia has also questioned the "conspiracy" behind creating a post of joint commissioner when none existing, and filling it with a "favourite" official.
This is an emergency like state. We have been elected to work. Those who stop us, we will fight them: Manish Sisodia pic.twitter.com/iIZXbp1W9O
— ANI (@ANI_news) June 9, 2015सनद रहे कि ये वही अफसर हैं जिन्होंने जंतर-मंतर पर किसान गजेंद्र की आत्महत्या को हत्या बनाकर मुझे फंसाने की फर्जी स्क्रिप्ट लिखी थी।
— Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) June 8, 2015Meena, Sisodia said, was the same officer who had investigated the death of the farmer from Rajasthan at the AAP protest rally in Jantar Mantar, and he had tried to "implicate" him by "falsely" reporting a "suicide as murder."
ACB में अचानक Jt कमिश्नर का नया पद बनाकर आनन फानन में अपने चहेते अफसर की नियुक्ति और रात में ही पद संभालने के आदेश के पीछे साजिश क्या है?
— Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) June 8, 2015BJP and the Congress Party have been demanding Singh's resignation since the controversy sparked in April. Congress leader Ajay Maken said today that Singh should be removed from his position.
We demand that Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar be removed from his position: Ajay Maken (Cong) pic.twitter.com/PLYxPjDRt5
— ANI (@ANI_news) June 9, 2015
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