MBBS Admission Fraud: KGMU fires its Microbiology Associate Professor
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Lucknow: The authorities at King George’s Medical University (KGMU) have terminated the services of its Microbiology Department’s Associate professor, who was arrested after his name configured in the MBBS admission fraud 5 years ago.
The medical teacher has now been found guilty of duping MBBS aspirants; by the executive council of KGMU which has passed the termination orders. He was earlier suspended along with a Pharmacology professor by the medical college administration.
The fraud had come to light in the year 2014 following FIRs lodged in Lucknow and Noida that named two faculty members, a staff and a student that they had duped MBBS course aspirant, who was intending to get admission at KGMU.
The racket was reported to be operating right on the medical university’s campus with even rooms of doctors being used.
The complainant in the case had lodged an FIR also mentioning the name of a person, who claimed to be an admission consultant and accused him of duping him of Rs 18.35 lakh by promising admission of his daughter in KGMU.
The medical teacher has now been found guilty of duping MBBS aspirants; by the executive council of KGMU which has passed the termination orders. He was earlier suspended along with a Pharmacology professor by the medical college administration.
The fraud had come to light in the year 2014 following FIRs lodged in Lucknow and Noida that named two faculty members, a staff and a student that they had duped MBBS course aspirant, who was intending to get admission at KGMU.
The racket was reported to be operating right on the medical university’s campus with even rooms of doctors being used.
The complainant in the case had lodged an FIR also mentioning the name of a person, who claimed to be an admission consultant and accused him of duping him of Rs 18.35 lakh by promising admission of his daughter in KGMU.
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