Nalgonda: Fraudsters are allegedly supplying fake caste certificate racket for a fee, providing ineligible candidates fraudulent Scheduled Caste-1 certificates to help them secure admissions in medical colleges under the reserved category.
One per cent of the total seats is earmarked for 10 sub-castes of Beda (Budga) Jangam under the SC1 category, giving candidates from this community a greater chance of securing admission in medical college because prospects for higher education remained acutely low among this community.
In NEET 2026, 117 candidates belonging to the SC1 category secured the qualifying 40th percentile, making them eligible for 61 seats reserved for this community. In the first and second phases of NEET counselling, 58 SC1 students secured admissions, while the remaining three seats needed to be filled up in the third phase.
A student who appeared for NEET-2025 with a Scheduled Caste-3 certificate secured a rank of 2,88,029 and failed to get admission in MBBS. In NEET 2026, he claimed to belong to the Scheduled Caste-1 community and secured admission even though his rank fell by over 23,000 to 3,11,684.
Similarly, a student who failed to get admission in a medical course with a 7,17,772 rank in NEET-2025 as an SC3 candidate secured a medical college seat with a 5,24,719 rank in NEET 2026 under the SC1 reservation.
Another student secured admission to MBBS with a 2,92,201 rank in NEET-2026 under the SC1 reservation, having appeared for NEET-2025 as an SC2 candidate.
The leaders of Beda (Budga) Jangam suspected at least 20 out of 58 students, who secured admission for the MBBS course had produced fake SC1 certificates. All the fake caste certificates were reportedly obtained from various tasildar offices in Hyderabad, and Rangareddy districts.
According to official records, some students, who got admission in the medical college for MBBS course under the SC1 category in 2026, had listed their castes under SC2 and SC3 for NEET 2025.
Speaking to Deccan Chronicle, Parvatham Anjaneyulu, a leader of the Telangana Beda Budiga Jangala Association, said they learned that a racket was operating in Hyderabad to obtain fake SC1 caste certificates for ineligible candidates to help them secure admission to medical courses. They reportedly collect huge amounts of money for getting fake certificates.
“When we saw the list of candidates who got admission under the SC1 category, we found at least 20 candidates, whose surnames were different from those in our community,” he said..
Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences has already conducted two phases of counselling for qualified NEET-2026 candidates for admissions to medical courses, including MBBS in government and private medical colleges in Telangana.
However, Anjaneyulu urged the state government to order an inquiry into the caste certificates of the 117 candidates qualified under SC1 and to postpone the third phase of counselling until then.
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