The Gujarat High Court today disposed of a plea demanding prosecution of state minister Shankar Chaudhary for allegedly obtaining a fake MBA degree and asked the petitioner to approach it only after exhausting other options.
A division bench of Chief Justice R Subhash Reddy and Justice A S Dave asked the petitioner Farsu Goklani to explore other options to pursue the case.
The bench said they would entertain the petition only after the petitioner has exhausted other options like filing FIR with police.
Goklani had contended that as per the information obtained by him through RTI, Chaudhary, Minister of State for Health, Transport and Urban Housing, passed his higher secondary examination in 2011 and got his MBA degree from Vadodara-based National Institute of Management within a year in 2012.
Goklani stated that no institute in world offers MBA degree in just a year and that too on the basis of class XII.
He demanded that Chaudhary be prosecuted for submitting false details regarding his degree in his election affidavit.
Goklani demanded that Election Commission should cancel Chaudhary's candidature. He also demanded that the minister be sacked from the Anandiben Patel cabinet.
Chaudhary, an MLA from Vav Assembly seat in Banaskantha district, was made minister after Patel took charge in May 2014 from the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
