Ramdev's close aide Balkrishna faced fresh trouble with the CBI saying that the university degree used by him to get a passport was fake.
The CBI Sunday registered two cases against Yoga guru Ramdev's close aide Balkrishna for allegedly furnishing fake educational degree for getting a passport.
While one case has been registered under section 420 (cheating) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) for procuring the fake degree, the second case was in violation of section 12 of the Indian Passport Act (knowingly furnishing false documents for getting passport), CBI officials said.
The decision to register cases was taken after Sampurna Nand Sanskrit University denied having him on their rolls ever.
The Registrar of the University Rajnish Shukla told the agency that the number mentioned by Balkrishna in his degree did not match with the University records and the enrolment numbers indicated in the fudged documents belong to a different student.
Balkrishna's two degrees 'Purv Madhyma', a high school degree issued in 1991 and 'Shastri', a Sanskrit degree in 1996 don't figure in the university's records, he said.
The documents show Krishna Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya, an affiliate of the university, as the issuing authority, Shukla said adding the Vice-Chancellor described the documents as fake.
CBI took all the documents from the Bareilly Passport Office after the agency registered a Preliminary Enquiry (PE) to probe whether Balkrishna had acquired the passport using forged documents.
The charges have been denied by Ramdev-controlled Patanjali Yogapeeth Trust. "Balkrishna's passport is valid. He got his passport about 12-13 years back. Why is the government now raising questions about it," Trust spokesperson SK Tijarawala said earlier.
Besides questions about his nationality, Balkrishna is under the scanner of the central investigating and law enforcement agencies for allegedly acquiring wealth worth several crores of rupees.
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