India, Oct. 1 -- A university has cancelled the BA-LLB degree of a lawyer allegedly linked to gangster Lawrence Bishnoi after police found his Class 12 certificate was fake, officials said on Thursday.

Rajabpur police station registered an FIR against the lawyer for allegedly submitting forged documents and cheating, and sent a letter to the Bar Council seeking cancellation of his registration, Station House Officer Tej Pal Singh said.

According to the FIR lodged by Venkateshwara University administrative officer Arun Kumaron on September 28, Deepak Nanda, a resident of Paschim Vihar in Delhi, took admission to the university's BA-LLB course in 2019. Nanda submitted a Class 12 marksheet and certificate purportedly issued by the Jammu an...