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Over 400 students and Rs 3.7 crore: the "doctor" arrested in Lucknow for selling medical degrees, and the college named in the police account
Lucknow, home to King George's Medical University and a cluster of private colleges, is a natural place for a racket in medical credentials to set up. In September 2024 police there arrested a man who, they said, had built one around the hopes of more than four hundred students.
According to The Hans India, Medical Buyer and DrugsControl's news service, a man named Vijay Sharma, who presented himself as a doctor, was arrested for selling fraudulent medical degrees to over 400 students and duping them of roughly Rs 3.7 crore. Reports described the involvement of a Lucknow institution, Khusro Memorial P.G. College, in the scheme, and The Hans India's account linked the racket to promises of "conversion" into King George's Medical University, a pitch aimed at medical students who wanted a better college than the one they were in. The accused is entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Why the numbers matter. Rs 3.7 crore across four hundred people is under a lakh each on average: the racket was not selling seats at Rs 50 lakh but documents and promises at a price a middle-class family could pay without a loan, which is why it could reach so many. The "conversion" pitch is worth studying too. A transfer between medical colleges in India is governed by regulations, is rare, and is decided by universities and the regulator, not by anyone with a "contact" in the registrar's office. A promise to move a student from a private college to a government university for a fee describes a fraud in every case.
For a student in any college: no individual can sell you a transfer, a degree or a registration. If a degree is offered for money without a course, it is fake; if a transfer is offered for money, it is fake; and if the person offering it calls himself a doctor, check the register before you check your bank balance.
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