Rajasthan police’s Special Operations Group (SOG) arrested 18 individuals on Wednesday, including former Rajasthan Medical Council (RMC) registrar Dr Rajesh Sharma, in a large-scale scam involving forged Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE) certificates. The racket reportedly enabled unqualified candidates to gain registrations and internships in hospitals across India.
Additional DG of SOG, Vishal Bansal, identified the key accused as Dr Sharma and former nodal officer Akhilesh Mathur. The remaining 15 arrested were candidates who had obtained MBBS degrees abroad but failed to clear the mandatory FMGE required to practice in India.
The SOG team, led by DIG Paris Deshmukh and SP Kundan Kanwariya, conducted raids across 22 cities. Investigators revealed that fake FMGE certificates were used to secure provisional RMC registrations, bypassing mandatory verification and allowing unqualified individuals to work as interns.
This investigation traces back to December last year when three fake doctors—Piyush Kumar Trivedi, Devendra Singh Gurjar, and Shubham Gurjar—were arrested for using forged FMGE documents. The probe has since expanded into a syndicate involving officials, middlemen, and candidates.
Preliminary findings suggest each candidate paid between Rs20–25 lakh to enter the system, with around Rs11 lakh allegedly routed to RMC officials. One accused, Dr Yash Purohit, was found working in a Udaipur private hospital with a fake certificate. Investigators have identified over 90 doctors who may have bypassed proper verification, raising serious patient safety concerns.
Following Dr Sharma’s suspension last year, authorities are continuing the probe, with more arrests expected as they uncover the full extent of the network.
