NMC blacklists senior doctor arrested by CBI on bribery charges

The National Medical Commission (NMC) has blacklisted a senior doctor working as an assessor, who allegedly received a bribe of ₹10 lakh in exchange for a positive assessment report to Jawaharalal Nehru Medical College of KLE Society, Belagavi. He was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in this case.

The NMC also decided that the renewal of the existing number of seats of the college in under-graduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) courses will not be done for the academic year 2025-26. “Furthermore, the application for increase of seats and starting of new courses for both UG and PG received by the Medical Assessment & Rating Board (MARB) for the year 2025-26 shall be cancelled and not processed further,” it stated.

The CBI arrested a senior doctor and Head of Department, Anatomy, at Murshidabad Medical College, working as an assessor with the NMC, after he allegedly received a bribe in exchange for a positive report to Jawaharalal Nehru Medical College in May 2025. An FIR in this regard was lodged by the CBI against some of the assessors, college authorities, and unknown persons. The matter is currently under investigation.

In its clarification, the NMC said that senior faculty members from various government medical colleges across the country volunteer to conduct periodic inspections in medical institutions on behalf of the Commission. “As such, the assessors are not employed by the Commission, but are pooled in from nation-wide government medical colleges and assigned for inspections through a randomisation process,” it stated.

The Commission has a no tolerance policy towards corruption, and any such untoward incident by any person or medical institution is being dealt by the Commission as per relevant penal provisions of the NMC Act and the regulations made therein under, it added.

B.L. Sujatha Rathod, Director, Directorate of Medical Education, said, “We have not received any official information or order from the NMC regarding this incident. Appropriate action will be taken against the college as soon as the information is received.”