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Fake degrees sold for lakhs, real ones rented out to pathology labs: the Uttar Pradesh racket that shows what a genuine MBBS certificate is worth on the black market
Most degree rackets sell forgeries. The one Medical Dialogues reported from Uttar Pradesh in May 2025 did that and something more revealing: it rented genuine ones.
According to the report, investigators found a network that sold fake medical degrees for lakhs of rupees to people who wanted to practise, and separately arranged for the certificates of real, registered doctors to be "rented" to pathology laboratories, so that the labs could display a qualified name, sign reports and satisfy inspections without employing the doctor at all. A second report from Medical Dialogues the same year described a man arrested in Silchar, Assam, for running a bogus medical-degree racket of his own.
The rental trade is the detail to dwell on. A pathology lab needs a registered pathologist's name on its reports, and regulators check that the name is on the register. They check the name, not the presence. So a genuine certificate, with a genuine registration behind it, acquires a rental value for a lab that wants the appearance of compliance, and the doctor who rents it out is lending his licence to results he never saw. Patients get a signed report; nobody has looked at the slide.
For a student, two consequences. The first is that your qualification, once earned, is an asset that others will try to borrow, and lending it is both a fraud and the fastest way to lose it. The second is the mirror of this site's usual warning: a registered name on a document proves that the name exists, not that the person did the work. That applies to the "resident doctor" on a college's faculty list, the "approved" agent on a letterhead and the "visiting professor" in a brochure. A register tells you who is real. It does not tell you who was in the room.
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