Yoga guru Ramdev's close aide Balkrishna faced fresh trouble with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) claiming that the university degree used by him to get a passport was fake. The investigating agency has registered two cases against him for allegedly furnishing fake degrees for getting the passport.

The Registrar of Sampurna Nand Sanskrit University Rajnish Shukla said the investigating agency came to the conclusion after records were matched. The enrolment numbers indicated in the fudged documents belong to a different student, he added. Balkrishna's two degrees 'Purv Madhyma', a high school degree issued in 1991 and 'Shastri', a Sanskrit degree in 1996 don't figure in the university's records, he said. The documents show Krishna Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya, an affiliate of the university, as the issuing authority, Shukla said adding the Vice-Chancellor has declared the documents as fake.

The CBI had taken all the documents from the Bareilly Passport Office after the agency registered a Preliminary Enquiry (PE) to probe whether Balkrishna had acquired the travel documents using forged documents. CBI officials said there were allegations that Balkrishna had fudged certain documents and had acquired passports using forged documents which is a punishable offence under the Indian Passport Act.

The charges have been denied by Ramdev-controlled Patanjali Yogapeeth Trust. "Balkrishna's passport is valid. He got his passport about 12-13 years back. Why is the government now raising questions about it," Trust spokesperson S K Tijarawala had said earlier. Besides questions being raised about his nationality, Balkrishna is under the scanner of the central investigating and law enforcement agencies for allegedly acquiring wealth worth several crores of rupees.