Delhi University once again refused to provide information on Narendra Modi’s graduation degree, this time in response to a Right to Information application. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said their move “deepened the mystery around” the prime minister’s degree. Kejriwal had recently accused Modi of faking his degree, saying that the degree belonged to a diferent person named Narendra Modi, and demanded that it be made public.

In April, he had asked the Central Information Commission to make the details of Modi’s degree public. After DU refused to share information, Kejriwal alleged the degree was fake. Last month, Kejriwal had sent party members to DU to inspect the degree but they were turned away.

The RTI was filed by a Delhi lawyer, Mohammad Irsad, reported The Indian Express. “DU, as a matter of policy, seeks to maintain the privacy of every student as it holds the data pertaining to a student in a fiduciary relationship with the student concerned,” the university said in response to the RTI query.

On Sunday, Aam Aadmi Party convenor Dilip Pandey said, “If DU thinks it is a matter of privacy… then it should take permission from the PM and release the information. Just a few weeks ago, Jaitley and Shah held a press conference to show copies of the degree. Does this mean they were forged?”

DU had earlier stated that the degree was genuine. Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders had also put Modi's degree in the public domain, and refuted allegations that the prime minister's academic qualifications were fake.