CBI today arrested two more people, including one stated to be a conduit, from Meerut raising the number of those apprehended to eight in a case relating to obtaining of recognition from Medical Council of India through allegedly fraudulent means for medical students from China and Russia.
CBI sources said that carrying on with its probe after the nationwide swoop, two more people were arrested today.
The role of a senior official from Medical Council of India (MCI) was being looked into, the sources said. CBI had conducted raids yesterday across the country and arrested six people in connection with the case.
The case was being personally monitored closely by CBI Director Ranjit Sinha who believes such people need to be dealt firmly as they play with the lives of patients.
Government has made it mandatory a screening test of medical students from erstwhile USSR countries and China who wanted to practice in India.
CBI alleged these candidates had colluded with MCI officials who gave them permission to practice in return for illegal gratification even though the doctors did not fulfil the necessary parameters.
CBI had information pertaining to this scam after which intelligence was developed before filing an FIR against eight people who claimed they had medical degrees from Russia and China.
The conduit in Meerut was acting as a middleman between the potential candidates and MCI for getting the registration for practising in India and one of the candidates had told the investigators that they paid upto Rs 20 lakh for getting registration from MCI.
"The verification in respect of the degrees obtained by these doctors from medical institutions abroad was shown to have been conducted much before even the submission of the applications of these doctors to MCI requesting for their registration," the CBI alleged.
"In none of the eight instances (cited in the FIR), the candidates had passed the mandatory screening test but their names were entered in Indian Medical Register on the basis of alleged false registration certificates issued by MCI," the CBI said.
