August 25, 2025

NEW DELHI: Hold onto your seats because a jaw-dropping scam has been busted! The Enforcement Directorate (ED), teaming up with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and Indian embassies abroad, has uncovered a massive fake NRI admission racket. Private medical colleges were caught red-handed giving admissions on about 18,000 reserved MBBS undergraduate and postgraduate seats using forged NRI documents! These colleges served up fake NRI certificates, carefully crafted with counterfeit US notary stamps for that 'official' look. The ED searched many medical colleges in West Bengal and Odisha over the past few months and grabbed crucial evidence. They sent the seized NRI certificates to Indian embassies overseas for verification. Drumroll, please! Most were outright fakes! The probe revealed the colleges paid agents to cook up these fake documents. These clever agents didn't stop there. They created sham family trees showing unrelated NRIs as relatives of the hopeful students, helping them sneak in under the NRI quota. Sometimes, one NRI's documents were wrongly used for many students who had no real connection to that NRI or each other. Shocking, isn't it? Behind this grand cheating scheme were the promoters of these private colleges, with agents spread all over India bringing in 'clients' and raking in huge illegal money. The government has acted fast! The Union’s Directorate General of Health Services issued strict new rules. Now, every NRI certificate must be authenticated by embassies before a college can grant admission on its basis. MEA also laid down clear guidelines for its embassies abroad to do thorough checks, defining exactly which relatives qualify as 'first degree' and 'second degree' for such admissions. What stings more is that some NRIs themselves got caught in the mess. They accepted bribes from agents to let their names be misused. "The agents approached and obtained credentials of unrelated NRIs by paying money to them," the investigation found. The policy clearly states that fees for NRI students should be paid by the NRI sponsor. But the probe showed that most of the time, the student's family paid the fees, breaking the core intent of the scheme — earning real foreign exchange for India. Also, many NRI sponsors were nowhere near India when their affidavits were notarized and signed, as a senior official revealed. This explosive investigation shows the lengths some go to game the admission system, but with the government's tougher rules now, the game is up for these fraudsters!

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Tags: Nri admission racket, Fake documents, Private medical colleges, Enforcement directorate, Mbbs seats, Ministry of external affairs,