New Degree Racket unearthed: Fake Medical College offering fake MBBS, BAMS degrees for Rs 50,000 only

His act came to light after a victim, a native of Madhya Pradesh; recently lodged a complaint against him at Civil Lines Police station for providing fake DAMS diploma to him at Rs 40,000

According to the complainant, he had met Gwarle in 2013 at his institute in Raipur through two acquaintances, who had then obtained DAMS diplomas from Gwarle's institute at Rs 45,000 for each. The complainant recently contacted the accused to get DAMS diploma for himself. Accordingly, the accused sold a similar diploma certificate to him at Rs 40,000 on October 6. However, the victim later realised that the document was fake and approached the police.

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Police launched a probe and recovered cash of Rs 40,000, a motorcycle, 11 mobile phones and fake degree certificates from the accused, Thakur said, adding that he was later arrested.

"We are gathering more information on the number of fake degrees he had sold to people. We will also approach such degree holders after identifying them to know whether they had any inkling about the fake degrees," he said.

Police suspect that many people could be practising medicine illegally at several places in the state on the basis of fake medical degrees and they are likely to be identified during the probe.

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