Yoga guru Ramdev’s right hand man and the chief of the biggest of his business enterprises Balkrishna used fake university degrees to get a passport, a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe has found out, media reports said on Monday.Two cases have been lodged against the key Ramdev aide after the federal agency found that the Balkrishna’s enrolment numbers on the two degrees from the Sampurna Nand Sanskrit University belonged to another student.
The two degrees that Balkrishna apparently fudged were a high school degree issued in 1991 'Purv Madhyma and a Sanskrit degree issued in 1996 'Shastri', neither of which figure in the university's records, officials said.
Ramdev-controlled Patanjali Yogapeeth Trust has denied that charges and asserted that the passport was indeed valid. “He got his passport about 12-13 years back. Why is the government now raising questions about it,” Trust spokesperson S K Tijarawala was quoted as saying.
Balkrishna had come under the scanner after he signed a secret deal with the government, allegedly on behalf of Ramdev, to call off a hunger strike protest that the yoga guru had planned in New Delhi to protest against government corruption.
When Ramdev did not call of the ‘fake’ hunger strike, the government went public with the Balkrishna’s letter that promised the withdrawal of the strike that left both the yoga guru and his aide egg faced.
Later the same night on June 5, police raided Ramdev’s protest campaign and forced the yoga guru back to his headquarters in Haridwar after declaring the strike illegal for not having obtained the correct permissions.
The two degrees that Balkrishna apparently fudged were a high school degree issued in 1991 'Purv Madhyma and a Sanskrit degree issued in 1996 'Shastri', neither of which figure in the university's records, officials said.
Ramdev-controlled Patanjali Yogapeeth Trust has denied that charges and asserted that the passport was indeed valid. “He got his passport about 12-13 years back. Why is the government now raising questions about it,” Trust spokesperson S K Tijarawala was quoted as saying.
Balkrishna had come under the scanner after he signed a secret deal with the government, allegedly on behalf of Ramdev, to call off a hunger strike protest that the yoga guru had planned in New Delhi to protest against government corruption.
When Ramdev did not call of the ‘fake’ hunger strike, the government went public with the Balkrishna’s letter that promised the withdrawal of the strike that left both the yoga guru and his aide egg faced.
Later the same night on June 5, police raided Ramdev’s protest campaign and forced the yoga guru back to his headquarters in Haridwar after declaring the strike illegal for not having obtained the correct permissions.
Later the Supreme Court also pulled up Ramdev and his associates for obtaining a permission for a yoga cam for 5,000 people while he hosted over 50,000 people at the Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi hollering anti-government slogans.
Source:IBNS
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