The Maharashtra Medical Council has busted a clutch of 57 doctors who submitted fake Post Graduation degrees which was acquired in the name of the same medical college in order to get registration from the council.

The council has cancelled the practicing license of all the doctors and an FIR was also filed in October 2018. More surprisingly, all the doctors got the degrees of the College of Physicians & Surgeons (CPS) in Mumbai and were from the same batch of 2014-15. These doctors practiced for around three-four years before they were identified.

Police investigations exposed that the accused, Dr Snehal Nyati, took money of Rs 3-5 lakh from every student on the pretext of providing a medical certification from the college. He also guaranteed the students of a degree even if they failed their exams. Several of these students had been registered with the MMC, which had allowed them to practice medicine in the state of Maharashtra, on the grounds of these fake degrees.

The scam first came into light in 2016, when the CPS received a letter from a police station in Maharashtras Jalgaon district, asking the college to verify a degree of a student. Hence, the investigations began and the college informed the police that the certificate concerned is fake and has not been issued by them.

The police then wrote to the MMC about the fake certificate and asked the council to verify the degrees of all the students registered for the year. An internal probe revealed that 78 of the applications received for the year 2014 and 2015 were fake.

MMC in its defense said that all the certificates appeared to be original, hence went ahead and issued license to the doctors and they don’t have the “expertise” to investigate. CPS mentioned that the certificates did not appear to be original and has a lot of difference between the original and fake certificates.

Dr Snehal Nyati stated that he has been unreasonably framed in this alleged CPS degree scandal. He has been made a victim by the CPS committee just to protect the chair and position of the current CPS President Dr Girish Mainderkar and his team members.

Nevertheless, President of CPS, Dr Girish Mainderkar, has denied these allegations and said that it was the responsibility of the MMC to verify every certificate with the college before issuing licenses.

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