New Delhi: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday said it has registered a case against eight doctors and officials of the Medical Council of India (MCI) on the allegations that the doctors with foreign medical degrees obtained false permanent registration certificates, “purportedly shown to have been issued by" the MCI.

The CBI said that it had conducted raids at 12 locations across the country including Asansol (West Bengal), Meerut (Uttar Pradesh), Chhatrapur (Madhya Pradesh), Aurangabad (Maharashtra), Thiruvananthapuram and Kollan (Kerala), Vadodara, Mehsana and Ahmedabad (Gujarat) and Chhattisgarh.

“The investigation conducted so far has revealed chain of middlemen, who allegedly used to charge huge amounts as bribe from accused doctors for further payments to MCI officials for issuance of such false registration certificates," the CBI said in a release late evening on Thursday.

The agency has said that fake registration certificates were obtained by the doctors and their foreign degrees were verified “much before even the submission of the applications of these doctors to MCI, requesting for their registration."

“In none of the eight instances, the candidates had passed the mandatory screening test, but their names were entered in Indian Medical Register on the basis of alleged false registration certificates issued by MCI," the release said.

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