New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED), in assistance with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and its overseas missions and embassies has uncovered a big admission scam involving non-resident Indians (NRIs). This scheme reportedly allowed private medical colleges to admission approximately 18,000 reserved MBBS undergraduate and postgraduate seats under the NRI quota by utilizing fraudulent NRI documents.
Enforcement Directorate Conduted Searches:
India’s foreign missions have confirmed that the non-resident Indians (NRI) certificates seized by the Enforcement Directorate from many private medical colleges and universities used for granting admissions were “Fake”, and these admissions were done using fake stamps of notaries in the USA.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has conducted searches at several medical colleges and universities in West Bengal and Odisha over the past few months, uncovering significant evidence in the process. Following these searches, the agency forwarded the seized NRI certificates to Indian embassies and missions for authentication, revealing that a majority were either forged or fabricated. The investigation further disclosed that these medical institutions were compensating agents to create “Fake” NRI documents.
The agents also prepared fake non-resident Indians (NRI) documents showing these unrelated NRIs as relatives of the students to secure admission under the NRI quota seats. In some cases, the agents and medical colleges used the documents of the same NRI to admit multiple candidates who had no connection with the NRI sponsor and each other.
