Nationwide ED Raids Uncover Alleged Corruption in National Medical Commission Inspection Process
(Judicial Quest News Network)
New Delhi, November 28, 2025: In a sweeping crackdown on alleged irregularities in the medical education sector, the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on Thursday carried out extensive search operations at 15 different premises spread across nine states and the National Capital Territory of Delhi. The coordinated action, which included raids on seven private medical colleges, is linked to a probe into suspected corruption and malpractice in the inspection process overseen by the National Medical Commission (NMC).
According to officials, the searches spanned institutions and establishments in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Delhi, marking one of the most wide-ranging enforcement actions in recent months. The ED’s intervention follows allegations that certain medical colleges secured undue advantages during NMC inspections, raising serious concerns about transparency and integrity in the regulation of medical education.
ED initiated investigation on the basis of a FIR registered by AC III, CBI, New Delhi under various sections of BNS, 2023 and of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 against several private medical colleges, government officials and others.
The FIR discloses that representatives of several private medical colleges across India, in collusion with certain public officials attached to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India, New Delhi, and the National Medical Commission (NMC), New Delhi, were engaged in acts of unlawful disclosure of confidential and privileged information relating to statutory inspections of medical institutions.
It is alleged that such information was surreptitiously communicated to key managerial personnel of the concerned medical colleges as well as intermediaries, thereby enabling them to manipulate inspection parameters and secure regulatory approvals for the conduct of academic courses. The FIR categorically records that these acts amount to abuse of official position, breach of fiduciary duty, and violation of statutory obligations under the governing framework of medical education regulation.
The FIR also revealed that several individuals had acted as middlemen and facilitated the unlawful disclosure of sensitive information to the medical colleges and assisted them to orchestrate fraudulent arrangements, including the bribing of assessors to secure favourable inspection reports, the deployment of non-existent or proxy faculty (“ghost faculty”), and the admission of fictitious patients to artificially project compliance during inspections.
The searches were conducted at several locations including seven medical colleges namely Shri Rawatpura Sarkar Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (SRIMSR), Raipur, Index Medical College, Indore, Gayatri Medical College, Vishakhapatnam, Father Colombo Institute of Medical Sciences, Warangal, Swaminarayan Institute of Medical Sciences & Research (SIMSR), Kallol, National Capital Region Institute of Medical Sciences, Meerut and Shyamlal Chandrashekhar Medical College, Khagaria.
During the search operations, various evidences including mobile phones, data stored in servers have been seized. Further investigation is under progress.
