Advocate arrested for submitting fake documents to get enrolled in Delhi Bar Council

The arrest of a man who allegedly submitted fake LLB documents to the Delhi Bar Council in 2014 in order to become an advocate was made possible by an RTI request that revealed the man had failed his second and third-year law exams. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Shahdara) R Sathiyasundaram said on Wednesday that Jai Prakash Gupta claimed in a complaint that he requested information from the Bhim Rao Ambedkar University in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, regarding the legitimacy of an advocate named Sumit Sharma’s LLB degree under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. Sharma claimed that he failed the second and third years of the Vrindavan Law College in Mathura’s 2010 examinations, but the RTI response stated that he only passed the first year.

The BR Ambedkar University is associated with the Vrindavan Law College. Gupta also claimed that Sharma had gotten the enrollment certificate in 2014 while submitting to the bar phoney, falsified, and counterfeit mark sheets from the second and third years of LLB as well as a provisional university certificate. According to the investigation, Sharma received fake LLB mark sheets for the second and third years as well as a provisional certificate dated July 3, 2014, which he used to join the bar and obtain an enrollment number, according to the police.

On the basis of a complaint from a man named Jai Prakash Gupta, a case was opened in the Anand Vihar police station under the provisions of sections 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 467 (forgery of valuable security, will, etc.), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged 1[document or electronic record]), and 34 (common intention). Anand Vihar police station received a report of the incident, and Sharma was taken into custody while a police investigation was underway.