Nuisance of forged documents in MBBS admission, authorities to verify documents

According to the daily, two students successfully secured seats in IGMC Shimla and the medical college in Chamba due to the failure to spot falsified documents presented by students during counselling.

In these two instances, the fake documents presented by the two accused students at the time of admission went undetected by the AMRU authorities in Mandi and the medical college authorities in Shimla and Chamba. As a result, both students were enrolled in MBBS first-year courses.

A similar incident occurred in Tanda Medical College in the Kangra district last year, where a student provided fake documents to gain admission to an MBBS programme. The girl reportedly produced a fake admission letter in order to impress her father. The girl had created a forged offer letter that she had cleared NEET and was eligible for admission to Tanda Medical College. The medical university found out that the registration number she had used on the offer letter was of another student. After a couple of such incidences being recorded, public and medical aspirants have demanded strict rules to detect forged document during the admission process.