Overview
- Search teams covered seven private medical college premises as well as residences and offices of accused persons named in the CBI FIR.
- The action, taken under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, aims to trace illicit payments suspected to have moved through hawala channels.
- The underlying CBI case names roughly 34–36 accused across the Health Ministry, the National Medical Commission and intermediary networks, with eight arrests including three NMC doctors over an alleged Rs 55 lakh bribe.
- Investigators allege prior leaks of inspection schedules and assessor identities, falsified biometric and faculty records, staged patients, and efforts to influence inspectors to secure course approvals.
- Colleges and figures under scrutiny include Gayatri Medical College (Visakhapatnam), Index Medical College (Indore), Father Colombo Institute (Warangal) and intermediaries such as Virendra Kumar and Jitu Lal Meena, with ED seizing digital and financial records during the searches.