Fake degree scam
SHILLONG: Thought Meghalaya police have filed its charge-sheet against CMJ University chancellor Chandra Mohan Jha and ten others associated with the university for selling fake degrees, two sons of the chancellor are still absconding. Police are clueless regarding their whereabouts.Besides Jha’s wife Mrs IR Jha, two sons — Govind Jha, Secretary of CMJ Foundation and Gopal Jha, Treasurer of CMJ Foundation – are also named in the charge-sheet. “Police teams should be sent to all the possible places to locate the duo, a high-level official source said on Saturday.They may be hiding in their native place in Bihar or else there is a possibility escaping to Nepal, the source said.Others whose names have been mentioned in the chargesheet are Registrar Mrinal Kanti Deb, former Registrar Tilok Das Gupta, Deputy Registrar Premlal Rai, Director Manjit Kaur Kaushal, Human Resource Manager Juban Kharpuri, Chancellor Apex e-learning Bangalore Dhanwant Singh Matharoo, and an employee of the examination department called Asifa Nongrum. The charge-sheet, which runs into more than 100 pages, was submitted to the Chief Judicial Magistrate recently by East Khasi Hills district SP Spill Thamar who as Additional SP (CID) two years ago was also appointed the investigating officer. The police also submitted a jeep-load of documents to the CJM’s Court, which included over 4,000 PhD theses. Irregularities in the controversial university incidentally was unearthed by former IPS officer RS Mooshahary, who as then Meghalaya governor was also Visitor to the private university. It was Mooshahary who had also filed an FIR with the police against the CMJ University and its ‘chancellor’ CM Jha, on April 26, 2013 under Sections 420, 406, 466, 34, 109, 120 B and 467 of the Indian Penal Code. The private university had in 2012-13 alone awarded PhD degrees to 434 persons who were mostly college teachers working in different states across the country. Jha was arrested from Bihar just before 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
