Mumbai. Maharashtra Cyber Police have arrested two more accused while exposing an interstate gang allegedly supplying fake examination certificates to foreign medical graduates. With these arrests, the number of people held in the case has risen to five. It is alleged that the gang prepared fake certificates and documents to secure registration with the Maharashtra Medical Council without clearing the mandatory medical screening examination.
The arrested accused have been identified as 31-year-old Shivam Rakesh Singh, a resident of Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh, and 29-year-old Dharmendra Laxman Singh, a resident of Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh. According to police, Shivam holds an MBA degree and runs a hospital in Bulandshahr. Investigating agencies suspect he played a key role in the gang’s technical operations and helped get fake FMGE certificates prepared for more than 20 candidates.
The case is linked to foreign medical graduates who studied MBBS abroad but had not cleared the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE), which is required for registration and practice as doctors in India. Despite this, registration was allegedly obtained with the Maharashtra Medical Council on the basis of fake certificates. The Maharashtra Medical Council had found irregularities in the documents of some candidates. After this, an FIR was lodged at the nodal cyber police station on August 7. The council’s inquiry had found suspicious documents in the profiles of 22 candidates.
In the initial action, two beneficiary candidates and one intermediary were arrested. Thereafter, on the basis of digital evidence and technical investigation, police allegedly reached the main source of the network preparing fake certificates. The probe has indicated that documents were prepared by gaining unauthorised access to the online portal used for examination and certificate issuance. Maharashtra Cyber Police are now investigating other people linked to this network, financial transactions and digital evidence. The possibility of further arrests in the case has not been ruled out.
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