Rs. 10 Lakh fined for false eligibility certificate in Foreign Medical Admission by Supreme Court

In so many cases, students are not eligible for applying to some courses then they make fake eligibility certificates, especially in medical courses.

Students without proper eligibility certificates enrolling for foreign universities while condemning such kind of practice, the Supreme court detects that those false details are provided to the authorities for the intention of obtaining an eligibility certificate and is said that it is an attempt to deceive the authorities.

An appeal was filed by the National Medical Commission, challenging the Manipur High court’s order directing the MCI/Board of Governors to issue an eligibility certificate to the respondent’s son L Binin Singh, hearing was held by the bench of Justice LN Rao and BR Gavai. While hearing, without interfering with High Court’s order, the bench encountered that the respondent son had completed his medical course in June 2020.

In this case, L Binin Singh the son of the respondent completed high school in the year 2014 and applied for UG medical course in Ukraine. After the admission and starting his course on 24 th September 2019, he applied for the issuance of an eligibility certificate stating that he was 17 years and 3 months and 30 days old on date of 31st December of admission year, the application written by him stated that his date of birth is 1st November 1998.

The MIC issued a show-cause notice on 11th October 2019, asking why his application should not be rejected on the grounds that he took admission to an MBBS course before reaching age 17, Binin Singh provided an explanation against the notice, following that the respondent filed a written petition in High court asking for an eligibility certificate from National Medical Commission because the NMC didn’t respond on the explanation of Binin Singh that’s why High court ordered the NMC to resolve the issue in one month of time.

On 30th January 2020, NMC denied the respondent’s request for an eligibility certificate based on Clause 4(1) of the Graduate Medical Education Regulations, 1997 on the grounds that he was under the age of 17 at the time of admission in 2014.

The Court also fined the respondent Rs. 10 lakhs for making a false declaration.

Legal News by Siddharth Sanjay Dubey.