Foreign Medical Graduate from Kazakhstan arrested for practicing with fake MCI, FMGE pass certificate

Now in the year 2014, Patil submitted an MCI registration certificate, an NBE mark sheet and screening test pass certificate of 2012 to Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) and based on these documents he was issued an MMC license number which allowed him to practice in the state

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However, the man came under the scanner in 2016 when it was found that another doctor in the state was registered under the same MCI registration number. The State Medical Council, then, communicated with the MCI and NBE.

After the investigation, the Maharashtra Medical Council came to know from the MCI that the permanent registration number that was mentioned in the MCI certificate submitted by Patil was actually issued one Dr Magar, reports Asian Age. Other certificates  including his FMGE test results were also found to be forged

The authenticity of the NBE certificate was questioned as well when it was discovered that two members were having the same roll number.

The President of the Maharashtra Medical Council, Dr Shivkumar Utture told the Mumbai Mirror, “We received two members’ applications with the same NBE roll number. So, we wrote to the NBE. Both the NBE and the MCI confirmed that the certificates submitted by Dhiraj were bogus.”

The Maharashtra Medical Council then registered an FIR in the Agripada police station.

With the "doctor" being on the run since then, the local police finally arrested him now after a period of three years. In this case, Dhiraj had applied for an anticipatory bail in the local court and the high court in Sangli, which the court had dismissed.