New Delhi: A Delhi court has decided that a complaint that Education Minister Smriti Irani misrepresented her qualifications is “maintainable.”  The case will be next heard on August 28.
The case against the politician has been filed by a freelance writer Ahmer Khan and alleges that Ms Irani has made contradictory claims about her college education in documents filed with the Election Commission.

Ms Irani is the youngest member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet.

The complaint against her says in  April 2004, Ms Irani had said that she completed her BA in 1996 from Delhi University (school of correspondence).

Last year, ahead of the national election which she contested unsuccessfully from Amethi in Uttar Praddeh, Ms Irani said that she had completed a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce Part-I from School of Open Learning, DU.