Medical degree for Rs 70,000, 14 fake doctors caught in Gujarat, know how the fraud was going on?
After the Khayati scandal in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, a big case has come to light which raises questions on the efficiency of the health department. Surat police has arrested 14 Munnabhai who became doctors by buying fake degrees for Rs 70,000. Police hopes that this number may increase further in further investigation. Police has also arrested the main accused Dr. Ramesh Gujarati in this case. There is a state of panic after the action of Zone-4 of Surat Police. Police also arrested BK Rawat of Ahmedabad in this case. BK Rawat was the director of the Board of Homeopathy.
Database of 1200 degrees found
According to Surat Police DCP Zone-4 Vijay Singh Gurjar, it has come to light in this big racket that those who made fake degrees used to give medical degrees for Rs 70,000. This gang was being operated from Surat. Gurjar said that a database of a total of 1200 fake degrees has been found from the gang. Gurjar said that the police have arrested 14 fake doctors who bought degrees from the gang. The accused were giving degrees issued by the Board of Electro Homeopathic Medicine (BEHM) Gujarat. Police have recovered hundreds of applications, certificates and stamps from them.
Action on confidential information
The police said that they had received information that three people with fake doctor degrees were running allopathy practice and the revenue department along with the police raided their clinic. On interrogation, the accused showed degrees issued by BEHM, which the police said was fake as the Gujarat government does not issue any such degrees. The accused were registering the degrees on a fake website.
Training given to prescribe homeopathy medicines
The police said that the main accused came to know that there are no rules about electro-homeopathy in India and he planned to set up a board to give degrees in the said course. He hired five people and trained them in electro-homeopathy and they completed the course in less than three years, training them to prescribe electro-homeopathy medicines, police said.
When the fake doctors realised that people were skeptical about electro-homeopathy, they changed their plan and started giving people degrees issued by Gujarat’s Ayush Ministry, claiming that BEHM (the board formed by them) has a tie-up with the state government. They charged Rs 70,000 for the degree and offered to train them, saying that with this certificate they can practice allopathy, homeopathy and health without any problem, police said.
