KHAIRPUR, Dec 12: The Shah Abdul Latif University Vice-Chancellor Dr Neelofar Shaikh on Wednesday suspended five officials of the university’s examination branch over allegations that they had issued a bogus BA degree to a candidate for a provincial assembly seat from Karachi.

Sources said that the matter was taken up when the university administration received a letter from the returning officer concerned about the fake degree. The RO had received complaints from a candidate accusing his rival of possessing fake degree.

The vice-chancellor had suspended deputy controller (semester) Rafique Ahmed Shaikh, assistant controller/office superintendent Ghulam Shabbir Kumbhar, office superintendent Ali Murad Behan and two clerks Rasheed Ahmed and Qamar Channa and constituted a committee to probe into the charges.