Daijiworld Media Network - Mumbai

Mumbai, Sep 24: Four persons, including two doctors, have been booked for allegedly duping a fellow physician of Rs 70 lakh on the pretext of securing his daughter’s MBBS seat under the management quota at a municipal medical college, Sion police said on Monday.

The accused—identified as Dr Rakesh Ramnarayan Verma, Dr Akhileshkumar Rammoorthy Pal (both attached to Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College & General Hospital in Sion) and two others, Luv Avadhkishore Gupta and Kush Gupta—will soon be summoned for questioning.

According to police, the 61-year-old complainant and his wife, both practising doctors in Dharavi, were seeking admission for their daughter after she failed to clear NEET five years ago. Dr Verma allegedly claimed he could secure a seat at Sion Medical College.

At a hotel meeting, Dr Pal allegedly demanded Rs 1 cr, later settling for Rs 70 lac after introducing the family to Luv Gupta.

Between September 2020 and February 2021, the doctor paid the amount in instalments at an office in Navi Mumbai. The family later received a forged admission letter and a fake email, and the daughter even joined sham online “lectures” with only a handful of “students” and no visible faculty.

The fraud came to light when the college dean confirmed no such admission existed. After repeated demands for a refund were ignored, the doctor approached Sion police, who have registered a case and launched an investigation.