Rajasthan Police’s Special Operations Group (SOG) has arrested two men for allegedly obtaining medical registrations using forged qualifications, including a Class 8 dropout who went from working as a hospital clerk to running a 100-bed hospital in Jalore district, officials said on Friday.
The main accused, Nananjiram Chaudhary, reportedly operated Bhaskar Hospital in Raniwara, Jalore, where investigators allege, he also performed surgeries despite lacking genuine medical qualifications.
According to Additional Director General of Police (SOG) Vishal Bansal, Chaudhary submitted forged educational certificates to obtain registration with the Rajasthan Medical Council (RMC). These allegedly included Class 10 and Class 12 marksheets, an MBBS degree attributed to Rama University in Kanpur, and a diploma in Gynecology and Obstetrics (DGO) purportedly issued by the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Mumbai.
The Mumbai-based institution subsequently confirmed that Chaudhary’s DGO certificate, allotment letter and pass certificate was forged, Bansal said.
From Hospital Clerk to Hospital Owner
Inspector General of Police (SOG) Ajay Pal Lamba said Chaudhary began his career around 2010, working at the outpatient counter of a private clinic, where he issued entry slips to patients.
He later joined Rajdev Hospital in Raniwara and purchased the facility in 2015. A year later, he renamed it Bhaskar Hospital.
Initially, the hospital employed a general medicine doctor. Chaudhary later appointed a staff gynaecologist in 2019, Lamba said.
Investigators allege that Chaudhary handled registration-related paperwork for doctors employed at the hospital and regularly visited the Rajasthan Medical Council office. Over time, he allegedly developed contacts with council officials and employees and used them to secure his own registration through forged documents.
The SOG is investigating how he managed to obtain registration and operate the hospital despite the alleged discrepancies in his qualifications.
Second Accused Allegedly Forged MBBS Degree
The second accused, Pankaj Yadav, 30, a resident of Kaliwas village in Rajasthan’s Sikar district, allegedly forged his MBBS qualifications after repeatedly failing the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE), which foreign-trained medical graduates must pass to practise medicine in India.
According to ADG Bansal, Yadav studied medicine in Kazakhstan between 2013 and 2018 and attempted the FMGE approximately six times without success.
He allegedly submitted a forged MBBS degree and marksheets attributed to Sri Krishna Medical College in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, along with a fake registration certificate from the Bihar Medical Council. Police verification reportedly established that the documents were forged.
Yadav was arrested in Kaithal, Haryana, where he had allegedly been staying to avoid arrest.
Investigation Began in 2024
The case originated from a complaint filed by Rajasthan Medical Council registrar Giridhar Gopal at Jaipur’s Ashok Nagar police station on October 6, 2024. The complaint alleged that several individuals had obtained medical registrations using forged documents.
The original complaint named eight people: Shantanu Kumar Charan, Deepak Chaudhary, Devendra Nehra, Geeta Kumari, Pankaj Yadav, Mahesh Kumar Gurjar, Sarimul Mazumdar and Ram Kishore Mahawar.
Nananjiram Chaudhary was subsequently added as a ninth accused in a follow-up complaint. The SOG later took over the investigation from Jaipur police.
Investigators are now attempting to identify the individuals who allegedly prepared or supplied the forged educational qualifications and determine how the accused managed to obtain medical registrations.
The arrests have raised concerns about the verification of medical credentials and the safeguards needed to prevent individuals without valid qualifications from practising medicine.
