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A Special Operation Group (SOG) of Rajasthan Police has registered an FIR against Bharat Adivasi Party MLA Jaykrishna Patel for allegedly securing a government teacher job using fake bachelor’s degrees. Probe found he obtained BA degrees from multiple universities in the same academic session and used them in recruitment and election affidavits, officials said further.

Jaipur: The Special Operation Group (SOG) of Rajasthan police has registered an FIR against the Bharat Adivasi Party (BAP) MLA Jaykrishna Patel for securing a government teacher job by submitting a fake bachelor's degree. The MLA is already facing graft charges for dropping questions in the assembly.

Already Facing Graft Charges

Vishal Bansal, Additional Director General of the SOG, said that a preliminary investigation revealed Patel had obtained Bachelor of Arts (BA) degrees from Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Sikkim during the same academic session, which is a violation of regulations.

The investigation found that between 2007 and 2010, Jaykrishna Patel had enrolled as a regular student for a Bachelor of Arts course at Mohanlal Sukhadia University in Udaipur. He subsequently failed the English subject in his second year. During this same period, he obtained a bachelor's degree with 73.85% marks from EIILM University in Sikkim. Later, he claimed to have obtained yet another degree from Calorx Teachers' University in Gujarat.