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CBI Crackdown on NMC inspection Fraud: 34 booked including Health Ministry, NMC officials- Here was the Modus Operandi

GarimaWritten by Garima Published On 2025-07-04T13:47:12+05:30  |  Updated On 4 July 2025 3:26 PM IST
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New Delhi: Busting systemic corruption in the medical education sector, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has booked 34 individuals- including officials from the Union Health Ministry and the National Medical Commission (NMC), for their alleged involvement in a widespread racket that manipulated the regulatory framework for private medical colleges.

The accused include government functionaries, doctors, intermediaries, and top representatives from private institutions, all linked to a web of bribery, information leaks, and fraudulent inspections.

Among those named in the FIR are eight officials from the Union Health Ministry, a National Health Authority officer, and five doctors from the NMC’s inspection team. Prominent private medical college figures have also been implicated.

The Crackdown:

According to a recent PTI report, the CBI has busted a network of officials of the Union health ministry, National Medical Commission, intermediaries and representatives of private medical colleges allegedly involved in a litany of "egregious" acts, including corruption and unlawful manipulation of the regulatory framework governing medical colleges. The agency has named 34 people in an FIR, including eight health ministry officials, a National Health Authority official and five doctors who were part of the National Medical Commissioner (NMC) inspection team.

Tata Institute of Social Sciences Chairman D P Singh, Gitanjali University Registrar Mayur Raval, Rawatpura Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Chairman Ravi Shankar ji Maharaj and Index Medical College Chairman Suresh Singh Bhadoria have also been named in the FIR.

The CBI has already arrested eight individuals, including three NMC doctors, allegedly caught accepting a Rs 55 lakh bribe to provide a favourable inspection report to Rawatpura Institute of Medical Sciences and Research. The arrested individuals have been identified as Dr Manjappa C.N., Dr. Chaitra M.S., Dr. Ashok D. Shelke, Atul Kumar Tiwari (Administrative Director, SRIMSR), Sathisha A., and Ravichandra K. All six were produced before a special CBI court in Raipur yesterday. The CBI sought five days’ remand for interrogation. The court is yet to rule on the request, adds UNI report.

According to CBI officials, the inspection team visited SRIMSR on June 30. The team comprised Dr. Manjappa (Orthopaedics HOD, Mandya Institute of Medical Sciences, Karnataka), Dr. Chaitra, Dr. Shelke, and Dr. Sathish. The CBI alleges that the officials colluded with Atul Tiwari and others to accept the bribe in return for a favourable National Medical Commission (NMC) inspection report. Dr. Manjappa allegedly directed Dr. Sathish to collect the ₹55 lakh via a hawala operator.

Acting on this information, the CBI conducted simultaneous raids at over 40 locations across Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Delhi. The arrests were made in Raipur on Tuesday, with some of the accused reportedly caught red-handed during the transaction.

Among those arrested is Dr. Atin Kundu, Medical Director of SRIMSR, who also reportedly serves as an Assistant Professor at the Raipur Government Medical College. His dual roles have triggered concerns over conflict of interest and violation of government service rules, which prohibit secondary employment without official approval.

The CBI maintains that doctored reports were submitted to the NMC to facilitate SRIMSR’s recognition. Officials claim the college administration and inspection team coordinated to manipulate the outcome of the inspection.

While the defence counsel argued that the doctors were wrongly implicated and had performed their duties diligently, the CBI insists that credible evidence confirms collusion to influence the inspection outcome.

The agency has filed formal charges against all six and continues its investigation. All accused are expected to be produced again before the special court after the initial remand period.

Also Read: Bribes for favourable medical college inspection reports- CBI arrests 3 doctors

Modus Operandi:

The syndicate has its roots in the Union health ministry, where eight accused officials ran the sophisticated scheme facilitating unauthorised access, illegal duplication and dissemination of highly confidential files and sensitive information to representatives of medical colleges through a network of intermediaries in exchange for huge bribes, the CBI FIR alleged, reports PTI.

It is alleged that the officials, in collusion with the intermediaries, manipulated the statutory inspection process conducted by the NMC by disclosing inspection schedules and identities of the designated assessors to the medical institutions concerned well in advance of the official communication.

The CBI has named the Union health ministry's Poonam Meena, Dharamvir, Piyush Malyan, Anup Jaiswal, Rahul Srivastava, Deepak, Manisha and Chandan Kumar as accused in the FIR.

They allegedly located files and clicked photographs of notings and comments made by senior officers.

This critical information pertaining to the regulatory status and internal processing of medical institutions in the ministry gave an alarming degree of leverage to colleges, allowing them to orchestrate elaborate deceptions to hoodwink the inspection process, according to the CBI.

"Such prior disclosures have enabled medical colleges to orchestrate fraudulent arrangements, including the bribing of assessors to secure favourable inspection reports, the deployment of non-existent or proxy faculty (ghost faculty), and the admission of fictitious patients to artificially project compliance during inspections, and tampering with the biometric attendance systems to falsify," the FIR said.

The agency has mentioned bribes running into lakhs of rupees being exchanged between NMC teams, intermediaries and representatives of medical colleges, being routed through hawala and used for multiple purposes, including the one in the name of construction of a temple.

Recent NMC action on inspection bribery case: Doctor blacklisted, Seat renewal, expansion blocked

Medical Dialogues recently reported that taking serious cognisance of corruption and misconduct, the National Medical Commission (NMC) blacklisted a senior doctor serving as an Assessor and imposed strict sanctions on a private medical college in Karnataka. The action came following the arrest of the Assessor by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for allegedly accepting a Rs 10 lakh bribe in exchange for a positive inspection report.

Besides, the implicated private medical college faced huge penalties, including the renewal of its existing number of MBBS and PG medical seats that shall not be done for the Academic Year (AY) 2025-26. Additionally, any applications from this college for an increase in seats or for starting new courses for both UG and PG medical programs, received by the Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB) for AY 2025-26, shall be cancelled and will not be processed further.

In May 2025, the CBI arrested a Senior doctor, Head of Department (HoD) Anatomy at Murshidabad Medical College, working as an Assessor with the National Medical Commission, immediately after he received a bribe of Rs 10 Lakhs allegedly in exchange for a favourable assessment report to a private medical college in Karnataka.

Also Read: NMC blacklists assessor, blocks MBBS, PG medical seats expansion at Karnataka medical college in Inspection bribery case
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Garima
Garima

    Garima joined Medical Dialogues in the year 2017 and is currently working as a Senior Editor. She looks after all the Healthcare news pertaining to Medico-legal cases, NMC/DCI decisions, Medical Education issues, government policies as well as all the news and updates concerning Medical and Dental Colleges in India. She is a graduate from Delhi University and pursuing MA in Journalism and Mass Communication. She can be contacted at editorial@medicaldialogues.in Contact no. 011-43720751

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