kolkata eastern institute of integrated learning in management eiilm which allegedly issued a law degree to aap mla commando surender singh in 2012 has since ceased to exist enquiries revealed that eiilm which opened with a lot of fanfare in sikkim in 2006 closed down ignominiously in early february this year in fact eillm owner vinay kumar rai a resident of new delhi was arrested from bagdogra airport on may 7 2013 a day after vicechancellor o b vijayan registrar alok bhandari and controller of examinations v dahiya were arrested from the university campus at jorethang in sikkim on charges of issuing degrees to students in return of huge sums of money rai had obtained bail a day later on may 8 eiilm was asked by university grants commission in august 2013 to immediately discontinue all its distance education courses since it did not have ugcs approval ugc also warned eiilm of punitive action if it did not comply with its directive ugc in its letter to the eiilm vicechancellor had said it has come to the notice of ugc that eiilm university is conducting various technical and general courses under distance mode and regular mode through its study centres offcampus centres offshore campus centres and franchisee centres without the approval of ugc and distance education council dec ugc said it had received several complaints about these centres issuing degrees to students without conducting any exams ugc accused eiilm of misleading students by promoting wrong information on website selling degrees by charging money instead of providing classes or conducting exams selling degrees in india and abroad by conducting courses in one sitting etc ugcs action followed a young man from delhi filing a complaint with the delhi police after he was awarded a bcom degree with 73 marks though he did not take the examination the student said he had enrolled for the bcom distance education course of eiilm university which was offering the degree in collaboration with delhibased scarlett institute of international management the complainant said he was informed that the threeyear course had been condensed to a year and he would have to appear for only one exam but scarlett institute kept telling him the exam dates had been rescheduled before announcing that he would have to take the exams in september 2012 the institute then reportedly sent him a copy of the answers of the questions that would be set when he turned up at the exam centre he was told he need not bother as someone else had already taken the exams on his behalf after a few days the student received his marksheets by email he had scored 73 aggregate in the 14paper exam around the same time sikkim police also registered a case against eiilm after receiving a complaint from another student who charged that eiilm set up under an act passed by the sikkim assembly in 2006 awarded him a degree for a course it does not offer eiilm university had enrolled thousands