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A degree in a week for Rs 70,000, 1,630 names in the register: the "Board of Electro Homeopathic Medicine" racket that put fake doctors in Surat's clinics
Not every fake medical qualification is a forged MBBS. Some are invented courses with invented boards, sold to people who then open clinics and treat patients for years. In December 2024 Gujarat police described one such factory.
According to ThePrint and Medical Dialogues, Surat police arrested thirteen people, ten of them practising as doctors, in a racket selling "Bachelor of Electro-Homeopathy Medicine and Surgery" degrees. Three of the accused, named as Rasesh Gujarathi of Surat, B. K. Rawat of Ahmedabad and an associate, Irfan Saiyed, were said to have run the operation under the name "Board of Electro Homeopathic Medicine, Ahmedabad", issuing a degree certificate, mark sheet, registration certificate and identity card within a week of "admission" for Rs 70,000. The Tribune reported that the pair had sold certificates to around 1,500 people, some educated only to the tenth standard, and that initial investigation suggested earnings above Rs 10 crore. A raid on Rawat's house, the reports said, recovered ten blank degrees, thirty filled-in degrees, 160 application forms, twelve identity cards and a register with 1,630 entries of "doctors" who had received the paper. Those arrested are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
The case is on a site about MBBS abroad for a reason that is not obvious. The people who bought these certificates were not, for the most part, trying to fool a regulator; they were trying to fool patients, and the paper was enough because patients do not check. The same is true of the fake foreign degrees described elsewhere here: their value is in the clinic sign, not in any registration, and they are bought by people who intend never to be verified.
For a family, the Surat register is a reminder to verify the person, not the frame on the wall. Every state medical council and the National Medical Commission maintain searchable registers of licensed doctors. A practitioner who is not on them, whatever the certificate says, is one of the 1,630.
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