CBI arrests medical college owner for forgery

New Delhi: The owner of an Indore-based medical college has been
arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Delhi for
allegedly using forged signatures in September 2008 to seek the
approval from the Medical Council of India (MCI) which had been
dissolved in May 2010.

The accused is Suresh Kumar Bhadoria who runs Index Medical College in
Indore. A Delhi court remanded him to CBI's custody on Saturday.

The signatures of around 40 doctors had been allegedly forged by
Bhadoria on the attendance sheet of his college when a team from the
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MH&SW)was conducting an
inspection for assessing the eligibility for imparting medical
education in September 2008.

The college had been earlier refused permission by the MCI for holding
the admission process for it second batch. The college had then
approached the Supreme Court to challenge the decision by MCI.

The MCI and the MH&SW had been asked by the Supreme Court to conduct
an inspection of the medical college to check its eligibility again
and inform the court about the same on September 26, 2008.

According to the report of the MCI, they had again found deficiencies
in the college infrastructure, including its professionally trained
manpower that made it ineligible to be granted permission for
conducting admissions for the second batch.

A team set up by the MH&SW comprising of two doctors from the
Safdarjung Hospital had inspected the college on September 25, 2008.
Based on the report of this team, the MH&SW had then granted approval
to the college's eligibility. However, after another inspection of the
college by the MCI ten days later had found the college to be
ineligible.

The probe by the CBI has revealed that around 40 signatures of doctors
had been allegedly forged by Bhadoria on the day when the team from
MH&SW had conducted the inspection.