FMGE Fake Registration Scam: CBI finds 20 fake FMGE certificates from Assam Medical Council, two from Haryana and Maha Medical Council
6 graduates are also under scanner in Telangana and Andhra pradesh for similar reasons
New Delhi: A day after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted a search operation at 91 locations across the country in connection with allegations of irregularities in the registration of Foreign Medical Graduates with state medical councils who were allowed to practice in India without qualifying for a mandatory test, the agency has found 28 more Graduates who had obtained fake certificates from various state medical council
Of the same 20 graduates have been caught in Assam, 2 in Maharashtra and 6 in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh
While conducting the search in Assam, the CBI have discovered several incriminating documents, including fake pass certificates of the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE) from the houses of the 20 graduates having an Assam Medical Council seal. Similarly, 2 medicos were caught from Maharashtra
Six "doctors" from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have also come under the scanner for allegedly possessing fake Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE) documents.
This comes after the agency registered an FIR against 14 state medical councils and 73 foreign medical graduates who were allowed to practice medicine in India without qualifying for the mandatory Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE).
Medical Dialogues team had recently reported the incident that the Central Bureau of Investigations started its investigation across the country suspecting a major racket of many unqualified foreign medical graduates practising in India without valid council registrations.
"The Central Bureau of Investigation has conducted searches at around 91 locations, including Delhi, Chandigarh, Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Bhatinda, Khanna, Karnal, Sawaimadhopur, Narvana, Hamirpur, Shimla, Jammu, Srinagar, Dehradun, Ghaziabad, Guwahati, Tejpur, Imphal, Sikkim, Rajpur, Patna, Munger, Mumbai, Jaipur, Sikar, Vijayawada, Warangal, Tirunelveli, Madurai, Bhopal, Nagpur, Buldana, Pune, Jalgaon, Darbhanga, Bhagalpur, Champaran, Begusarai, Bokaro, Vizag, Hajipur, Vaishali, Nalanda etc at the premises of certain Medical Councils as well as Foreign Medical Graduates(FMGs) which led to the recovery of several incriminating documents, including fake Pass Certificates of the FMG Examination," CBI stated.
Following the raids, 20 fake certificates carrying the seal of Assam Medical Council were recovered, while two such certificates were carrying the seal of Haryana Medical Council and and Maharashtra Medical Council, respectively
According to norms, a foreign medical graduate must qualify FMGE/Screening Test conducted by the National Board of Examination in order to get provisional or permanent registration with the National Medical Commission or a state medical council to practice medicine in India.
The sources said NBE sends its results to candidates as well as councils.
The National Board of Examination had intimated the Ministry of Health that 73 such medical graduates who did their MBBS from foreign countries such as Russia, Ukraine, China, and Nigeria during 2011-22 have not qualified its examination and yet got registration from various state medical councils.
When fake eligibility certificates were produced by these candidates, medical councils could have verified it from the results directly sent to them by NBE, they said.
On the other hand, the agency has found two more doctors in Vidarbha, one each in Nagpur and Buldana while conducting their search in Maharashtra. Both doctors are reported to have procured fake registration certificates from Maharashtra and Haryana Medical Council respectively.
During the investigation, the agency found that the doctor from Nagpur failed in FMGE test conducted in India after completing its MD Physician course from Kuban State Medical University, Russia in 2020, The Live Nagpur reports.
The information was revealed after CBI raided their houses as part of the investigation. However, in the case of the doctor from Buldana, he failed FMGE after completing his medical course at the Jilin University of China in 2015. Although many cases have been brought to light so far, more are expected to emerge in the future.
