HRD Minister Smriti Irani’s 1996 BA course documents yet to be found, DU tells court

Assistant Registrar of School of Open Learning, Delhi University (DU), O P Tanwar said that Irani’s class 12th documents, submitted with the admission form of B.Com (H) course were yet to be found. (File photo)

The Delhi University Tuesday told a local court that documents pertaining to Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani’s BA course in 1996, as mentioned by her in an affidavit filed during 2004 Lok Sabha elections, were yet to be found.

The university’s response came in pursuance to the court’s earlier order summoning documents from its School of Open Learning department on the allegation that while Irani’s affidavit for 2004 polls claimed that she completed her BA in 1996, another affidavit by her for the 2011 Rajya Sabha poll from Gujarat had mentioned her highest qualification as B.Com (Part I) from DU.

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“1996 documents related to her (Irani) BA are yet to be found,” Assistant Registrar of the School of Open Learning, O P Tanwar, told Metropolitan Magistrate Harvinder Singh. Tanwar, however, submitted documents related to Irani’s education, including the admission form for B.Com (H) course of 1993-94 and its result and further her enrollment-cum-admission form for first year BA (H) Political Science course of 2013-14.