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A "cardiologist" in a Damoh hospital with a bought degree, then a gang of three with fake MBBS diplomas in the same town: Madhya Pradesh's Rs 10 lakh degrees and forty patients a day
Damoh is a district town in Madhya Pradesh, and in 2025 and 2026 it produced two of India's more alarming fake-doctor cases.
According to Deccan Herald, a court in Damoh in 2025 sent a man accused of practising as a cardiologist on fake credentials into five days of police custody, after complaints about treatment at the hospital where he had worked. Trak.in reported that fake doctors in Madhya Pradesh had bought degrees for about Rs 10 lakh and were seeing some forty patients a day. In May 2026, a French-language chronicle of Indian affairs reported the arrest in Damoh of a group of men, named in the report as Sachin Yadav, Rajpal Gour and Ajay Maurya, found practising on fake MBBS diplomas, and the involvement of a local politician in bringing the matter to light.
The cardiologist case drew national attention because the speciality is one in which an unqualified person's mistakes are quickly fatal, and because the hospital had taken the credentials at face value. The second case shows the supply: a town where a degree could be bought for Rs 10 lakh had, by the following year, several people who had bought one.
Rs 10 lakh is also, roughly, what a family might pay for a year of a private medical college abroad, which is the comparison worth making. The purchased degree gave its holders a clinic, patients and a daily income, until the police came; it gave them no registration that would survive a check, no right to practise anywhere a regulator looks, and a criminal case. The genuine degree, slower and dearer, gives a registration that is checked and holds.
Madhya Pradesh's state medical council register is public. The Damoh patients did not consult it. The lesson, for patients and for the students who will become doctors, is that the register is the only thing separating the Rs 10 lakh degree from the real one, and it takes a minute to use.
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