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NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party MLA Pankaj Pushkar on Saturday lashed out at the top leadership of the party over its handling of the Jitender Tomar issue and asked Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal to "apologize" to the people.Pushkar, who had publicly sided with ousted AAP leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan, said that the party should have acted against Tomar when the issue had first come to light."The facts came to light four months back. Why did not the party take action against him back then? If the leadership had paid heed to few voices, then this situation could have been avoided."The biggest damage has been inflicted on public trust. The party and Arvind Kejriwal should definitely apologize to the people of Delhi," Pushkar told PTI.The Timarpur MLA said that the party should have a mechanism of "self-disclosure" instead of waiting for outside forces to compel it to disclose something."The other cases involving Vishesh Ravi (Karol Bagh MLA), Surinder Singh (Delhi Cantt MLA) should be acted upon. In case of doubt, one should go for immediate self-disclsoure," he said.Pushkar said he would continue to raise his voice against apparent deviations from the principles of Swaraj, transparency and ethics by the party."I do not fear any action against me. But I cannot go against my principles," he said.He also extended his full support to the Swaraj Abhiyaan movement launched by Yadav and Bhushan.The police custody of ex-Delhi law minister Jitender Singh Tomar was on Saturday extended by two days by a court here after the Delhi Police claimed that documents produced by him were "fabricated" and charges under Prevention of Corruption Act might also be invoked in the case.49-year-old Tomar, who was arrested in the case on June 9, was prodcued before metropolitan magistrate Pooja Aggarwal on expiry of his four-day police remand and the investigators sought extension of his remand by 11 days saying the earlier time period was "not sufficient".The police also said that Tomar was required for further custodial interrogation to know about the persons who had allegedly connived with him in procurement of purported fake educational certificates."Every document produced by him (Tomar) is fabricated and it needs to be probed who are the people in connivance with Tomar in procuring these documents," police told the court, adding, "prima facie" charge under Prevention of Corruption Act was likely to come into effect in the case.It alleged that records of Tilka Manjhi University, Bhagalpur, Bihar, were "torn which showed connivance of university officials with Tomar" and it might attract charges under the anti-graft law.It said that lots of documents were required to be probed and the four-day remand granted earlier was not sufficient as almost 45 hours were spent in travelling more than 3,000km.Giving details of the probe carried out by it, the police said "Tomar's migration certificate issued from Bundelkhand University was also fabricated and we need to go there and probe this angle."Opposing the police's plea, advocate Rajiv Khosla, who appeared for Tomar, said that police had already been to all the places and seized all the documents.Khosla said Tomar was not well and the only purpose for extension of remand was to "harass him as police were totally biased and acting on someone's will".Tomar, who was present in the court room, told the court that he was being harassed by the police and all documents have already been recovered so there was no need for extension of the police remand.He also said that his counsel was not allowed to be with him during the four-day custody.Jitender Singh Tomar did not graduate from our varsity - RML Awadh University"All the registers and documents were seized and signed but I was not allowed to see them," Tomar alleged.