As many as 57 'bogus' doctors named in a racket, ­­whose post graduate degrees have been derecognised by the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC), continue to put patients' lives at risk in the city. While the Agripada police registered an FIR in October 2018, and arrested the mastermind of the racket a month later, no other doctors have been put behind bars yet.

MMC first uncovered the racket in 2016, when they began verifying documents of doctors who'd submitted their graduation and post graduation certificates for registration. During scrutiny, MMC found discrepancies in documents of 57 doctors who had filed applications for registration between January 2015 and October 2015. All of these doctors had submitted certificates from the College Of Physicians and Surgeons (CPS), Mumbai. When their documents were sent for verification, CPS said all of them were forged.