Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Dec 29: 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, Dharbhanga, 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.
Several incriminating documents were recovered during the raids.
CBI registered a case on 21.12.2022 against unknown public servants of State Medical Councils & MCI; 73 Foreign Medical Graduates and other unknown public servants/private persons on the allegations of irregularities in the registration of Foreign Medical Graduates with Medical Councils in several states on the basis of fake certificates of qualifying Foreign Medical Graduates Examination conducted by National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS).
It has been alleged that as many as 73 Foreign Medical Graduates, who failed to qualify for the mandatory qualifying examination managed to get themselves registered with Medical Councils in several states.
