Ramdev's key aide Balakrishna's degrees fake

Varanasi, July 23 (ANI): Balakrishna, a close aide of yoga guru Baba Ramdev, seems to be involved in a fresh controversy with the inquiries being made by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into his testimonials reveal that his degrees issued from a University in Varanasi were fake.

According to Rajnish Shukla, the registrar of Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, the CBI came to the conclusion after records were matched.

"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. The Vice-Chancellor has declared the documents fake," Doordarshan quoted Shukla, as saying. (ANI)