Wednesday, 08 February 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
Numerous forged documents & fake degrees recovered from main accused
The Dehradun Police have recovered nearly 1,200 forged documents including fake MBBS degrees allegedly from Ukraine from the possession of Imlakh Khan, who was on a three-day police custody remand as the main accused of the fake Bachelor of Ayurveda Medicine and Surgery (BAMS) degree case. The police also arrested another fake BAMS doctor on Tuesday from Chamba, Tehri. This is the 12th arrest of the police in the case. The Dehradun senior superintendent of police Dalip Singh Kunwar said that the Special Investigation Team constituted to probe the case arrested the 12th accused, Rajendra Prasad, who was practicing as a doctor in Tehri on the basis of his fake BAMS degree which he had bought in 2017 from Imlakh Khan for Rs 60 lakh. Prasad told the police that he had got Bachelor of Electro Homeopathy Medicine and Surgery (BEMS) degree in 1991 and he met Imlakh in 2017 through a man named Anurag Nautiyal who gave him a fake BAMS degree and registered him in Indian Medical Council (IMC) too for Rs 60 lakh, said the SSP.
He also informed that Khan was in three-day police custody on remand and was taken by the police to his college Baba Group of Colleges in Muzaffarnagar as part of the investigation. He said that the police recovered a large quantity of fake degrees of various medical universities, letter pads, stamps among several other forged documents including fake MBBS degrees from Ukraine. The police recovered about 1,200 such forged documents in total so far from Imlakh’s college in Muzaffarnagar. Khan has been allegedly selling such counterfeit degrees to many people for over a decade and some of them are suspected to be working as government employees. The SSP said that police are working to identify such fake doctors along with all other culprits in the case.
