New Delhi | 25 August 2025 | (Updated August 25, 2025, 8:34 AM IST)
ED has busted a racket of more than 18,000 admissions in MBBS, UG and PG courses in private medical colleges with fake NRI documents. Agents and college promoters were found involved in this. Fake family trees and fake notary stamps were found during the investigation. The central government has immediately issued new guidelines and made strict authentication of NRI certificates mandatory.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) with the help of the Ministry of External Affairs and its foreign missions and embassies has busted a major NRI admission racket. In this racket, fake NRI documents were being used to get admission in MBBS, UG and PG courses on around 18,000 reserved seats in private medical colleges.
During the raid, ED seized NRI certificates from several colleges and sent them to foreign missions for verification. Investigation revealed that most of the documents were fake. Also, fake stamps of notary officers working in the US were also found.
The investigation revealed that agents were preparing fake NRI documents by taking money from the college. They used to create fake family trees, in which unrelated NRIs were shown as relatives of the students. In many cases, the documents of the same NRI were used for different students. The role of college promoters has also come to light in this entire network, who made huge profits by getting seats for students through agents.
Bribes were given to college promoters
The investigation also revealed that some NRIs themselves were involved in the racket. Agents bribed them to allow their names to be used for admission of students. As per the existing rules, the student’s fees should be paid by the NRI sponsor, but the ED found that in most cases the fees were paid by the students’ families, thereby affecting the real of the policy – earning foreign exchange.
After the disclosure, the central government changed the rules
The central government has immediately changed the NRI entry policy after this revelation. The Director General of Health Services (DGHS) issued new guidelines, making it mandatory for every NRI certificate to be authenticated by the embassy or foreign mission. The Ministry of External Affairs also implemented new verification guidelines for embassies, defining ‘first class’ and ‘second class’ relatives.
In many cases it was found that the NRI sponsors in whose name the application was made were not present in India at that time, even though the notarized date was mentioned on their documents. This has raised serious questions on the credibility of the entire system.