The Kayamkulam police on Saturday arrested former Students’ Federation of India (SFI) leader Nikhil Thomas who is accused of forging his degree certificate. Nikhil, who was absconding for the past five days, was taken into custody by the police from a Kerala State Road Transport Corporation bus at Kottayam while he was on his way to Kottarakara from Kozhikode in the early hours of the day. He was produced before a local court and remanded in police custody till June 30.
Officials said the accused had confessed that he gained MCom admission at Milad E-Sherif Memorial (MSM) College, Kayamkulam by furnishing a fake BCom certificate.
