Chinese MBBS doctors held in Hyderabad for forging Medical Council registration
Hyderabad: A certificate and registration fraud using the name of the Medical Council of India, in which two doctors who completed their MBBS from China were allegedly involved, has been busted by the Hyderabad City Police. Three persons were arrested in connection with the fraud that came to light on Thursday. Police identified the arrested […]
Hyderabad: A certificate and registration fraud using the name of the Medical Council of India, in which two doctors who completed their MBBS from China were allegedly involved, has been busted by the Hyderabad City Police.
Three persons were arrested in connection with the fraud that came to light on Thursday. Police identified the arrested suspects as Kandukuri Anantha Kumar (47), a senior assistant with the Telangana State Medical Council, Kasaramoni Sivanand (32) and Thota Dilip Kumar (31).
Additional Commissioner of Police (Crimes) Hyderabad AR Srinivas said Sivanand and Dilip Kumar had done their MBBS course from China in 2012 and returned to India. Here, they appeared for the national level test that is mandatory for candidates who do their medicine course abroad.
“It is mandatory to clear the test to get a registration number from the MCI. However, Sivanand and Dilip Kumar failed to clear the test and later approached Anantha Kumar to help get registration certificates,” Srinivas said.
Anantha Kumar demanded Rs.9 lakh each from them to deliver the certificates after obtaining it fraudulently.
“He collected the money from Dilip and Sivanand and gave the certificates to them after forging the document with their names and downloading the same from the database,” he said, adding that the scam came to light when two other doctors went to the MCI to get their certificates registered.
The staff then found that their names were tampered with in the records, indicating that certificates were issued to others. Following a complaint from the Medical Council, the Hyderabad police began investigation, with the trails taking them to the suspects, who were then arrested.
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