Doctors sentenced to jail for using fake domicile to get medical seats
Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh court has recently sentenced two government doctors to prison in separate cases for securing medical seats using forged domicile certificates.
The MP court has highlighted that such acts not only constitute criminal fraud but also directly deny deserving medical aspirants their rightful opportunities.
Acting on the fraud, on January 30, 2026, the 23rd Additional Sessions Court in Bhopal convicted one doctor for falsely claiming Madhya Pradesh domicile status to obtain admission under the state quota. He was sentenced to three years of rigorous imprisonment under Sections 420, 467, and 468 of the Indian Penal Code, and two years under Section 471, along with fines imposed under each section.
Dainik Jagran reported that the doctor originally hailed from Uttar Pradesh and had completed his school education through the UP Board. Despite this, he allegedly procured a forged domicile certificate purportedly issued by Morena district’s Ambah tehsil and used it to secure a medical seat after clearing the PMT examination. Subsequent verification revealed that no such domicile certificate existed in official records.
The State Task Force (STF) registered the case after the discrepancy emerged and filed a chargesheet in court. At the time of his conviction, Dr Sharma was serving as a medical officer at a government hospital in Bhind district. The prosecution was conducted by Special Public Prosecutors Aqil Khan and Sudhavijay Singh Bhadoria.
Following the case about fake domicile, the court remarked that such offences committed by government doctors carry greater societal consequences. “By securing a medical seat through forged documents, the accused deprived a deserving student of their legitimate right,” the court noted, stressing the need for deterrent punishment,” the court noted.
In a similar case, just three days later, on January 27, the same court delivered a similar verdict in another long-pending case involving another doctor. He was convicted for using a fake domicile certificate to gain admission to Gandhi Medical College in 2010 under the Madhya Pradesh quota. Investigations by Vyapam and the STF later established that he, too, was a resident of Uttar Pradesh.
Following a legal process spanning nearly 15 years, the doctor was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment of up to three years under Sections 420, 467, 468 and 471 of the IPC, along with monetary penalties, Dainik Jagran reported.
