Authentication of Foreign Medical Degrees Mandatory for FMGE Eligibility: Delhi High Court
Case Title: BRIJ SHARADBHAI BHATT AND ORS v. NATIONAL MEDICAL COMMISSION AND ORS
Case No.: W.P.(C) 11266/2025
Coram: Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia
Court OBservation
“Authentication of a document submitted by any candidate claiming his eligibility on the basis of said document, in our opinion, is necessary so as to enable the examination conducting body to be in a position to exclude those candidates from appearing in the examination who seek their appearance on the basis of fake or false educational qualifications,”
“Thus, requiring authentication by Embassy of India in a foreign country or apostillation of a foreign medical degree in accordance with the requirement of Hague Convention of 05.10.1961, in our opinion, does not cause any prejudice to any candidate and, therefore, any challenge to such a clause of the Information Bulletin has to necessarily fail,”
“Exclusion of such institutions by substituting the impugned Regulation 4(1) of the Screening Regulations, 2002 vide notification dated 26.09.2009, in our opinion, is based on the consideration of relevant factors by the respondent no.1, which appears to be based on experience of the respondent no.1 while regulating the medical education in India and, therefore, we are of the opinion that no interference in the said Regulation, which is based on expert opinion, is warranted,”
Authentication of Foreign Medical Degrees Mandatory for FMGE Eligibility: Delhi High Court
