ISLAMABAD,April23,2012: A Hindu legislator of the
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party was on Monday given a one-year prison term by a court in northwest Pakistan after being convicted for possessing a fake BA degree.Kishore Kumar, a member of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, was arrested from the courtroom after Session Judge Shahjahan Khan declared his degree was fake.Besides giving Kumar a one-year prison term, Judge Khan ordered him to pay a fine of Rs 15,000.The legislator was produced in the court at Dera Ismail Khan amidst strict security.Kumar was made a member of the provincial assembly in a seat reserved for minority communities after the 2008 polls.Later, his BA degree from Gomal University was declared fake by the Election Commission.The court had been hearing Kumar's case for the past three months.Kumar filed a petition in the same court seeking bail.
