Latest reported cases of education fraud in India and abroad: fake degrees, degree mills, certificate rackets, immigration document fraud, regulator action and RTI-based disclosures. Each report links to its sources.
The Delhi High Court set aside the UGC's five-year ban on PhD enrolment at the Jhunjhunu university, ruling that the commission lacked the power to impose it. In 2026, Rajasthan named the university among ten private universities under investigation after complaints.
1 November 2026
A probe that began with two RPSC lecturer candidates' MA degrees has led to the arrest of former Mewar University officials and an alleged mastermind, and to a state ban on new admissions at the Chittorgarh university.
1 November 2026
The state dissolved the Churu-based OPJS University in January 2026 over backdated and excess degrees, and the higher education minister has told the Assembly that 10 other private universities are under investigation.
1 November 2026
Dissolved in 2013, the Shillong-based private university is still the subject of a money-laundering case over about 20,570 degrees that police say were illegally issued. The ED's latest reported attachment was in July 2025.
1 November 2026
A special PMLA court in Shimla has declared two promoters of the Solan-based private university fugitive economic offenders and allowed the ED to confiscate property, as the agency says about Rs 200 crore has been attached.
1 November 2026
More than a year after the UP STF raided Monad University in Hapur, the police case has reached the chargesheet stage and the Enforcement Directorate is tracing the money. Here is what official records and published reports show.
1 November 2026
The District Education Officer in Banka has dismissed a government school teacher appointed in 1994, after verification found he could not produce original records and a police officer said the certificates were his.
1 November 2026
An Islamabad hospital inquiry reportedly found that a grade-16 employee issued about two dozen fake house job certificates for money, but the ministry has replaced his dismissal with compulsory retirement, which keeps his pension.
1 November 2026
The Milimani Anti-Corruption Court convicted a former Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company employee of using a falsified secondary school certificate to get his job, ordering him to refund seven years of pay and pay fines.
1 November 2026
Uttar Pradesh's Ayurvedic and Unani medicine board has barred 19 registered practitioners from treating patients after the institutions named on their degrees reportedly declared the documents fake. A police complaint has been filed in Lucknow.
31 October 2026
Polish border officers say a group sold forged student-status certificates in the names of Ukrainian universities and Polish schools, which foreigners allegedly used to obtain residence and work permits. Charges have been brought against 23 people.
31 October 2026
A Dhaka court has imposed a travel ban on two officials recruited through the 38th BCS examination after the Anti-Corruption Commission said they allegedly used forged certificates to secure their posts.
31 October 2026
A former additional director of Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau was arrested in Islamabad after his bail was refused, and a court granted three days of physical remand in a case involving allegedly fake MBA degrees and corruption.
31 October 2026
Pakistan's Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights has called for an impartial investigation into a case linked to allegedly fake US university admission documents and summoned education and foreign affairs officials to its next meeting.
31 October 2026
Federal prosecutors say stolen identities were used to enrol fake students at US colleges and divert federal aid refunds overseas. Investigators have flagged more than 830,000 suspect student aid IDs.
30 October 2026
Newly recruited constables who allegedly secured jobs through the sports quota using forged Kurash certificates have been picked up from training centres, taking total arrests in the case to about 25.
30 October 2026
In an interim order, the court said lecturers cannot be dismissed on allegations of fake certificates without an inquiry, while leaving the department free to start proceedings.
30 October 2026
Joint raids by Surat's Special Operations Group and health officials in Dindoli found people with school-level or non-medical qualifications allegedly treating patients, police said.
30 October 2026
More than 100 Chinese MBA students at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia have been unable to graduate on schedule while the university checks their English test certificates with testing bodies.
30 October 2026
Dehradun police say three fathers allegedly used forged freedom-fighter dependent, domicile and Aadhaar documents to secure MBBS admission or counselling for their daughters, taking total arrests to eight.
29 October 2026
The Special Operations Group says the accused failed the foreign medical graduate screening test three times and allegedly paid brokers Rs 22 lakh for a forged pass certificate used to seek internship registration.
29 October 2026
Board records show 50 marks, not the 90 printed on the 2011 TET marksheet a Muzaffarpur primary school teacher allegedly used to secure her post in 2014.
29 October 2026
Police say they recovered purported LLB and LLM certificates, a Bar association seal, and a wig and gown from the suspect, who allegedly admitted he was not a lawyer.
29 October 2026
The SFI says 35 regularised contract lecturers have already been dismissed over fraudulent certificates and alleges hundreds more may hold questionable out-of-state postgraduate degrees.
29 October 2026
The Telangana Board of Intermediate Education says inspections found 65 junior colleges had filed fake fire no-objection certificates, as it defended penalties and affiliation decisions against college managements' criticism.
26 October 2026
Uttarakhand Home Guard officials say 20 candidates submitted suspicious Class 10 and 12 certificates, allegedly created with computers and AI, to claim extra marks in a recruitment drive for 227 posts.
26 October 2026
A former principal human resource officer at the County Assembly of Kiambu was fined and ordered to compensate the government after pleading guilty in a case brought by Kenya's anti-corruption commission.
26 October 2026
Investigators in Thanh Hoa say a network printing documents in Bavet, Cambodia, sold more than 100,000 forged diplomas, professional certificates and driving licences through Facebook since early 2026.
26 October 2026
Teams from 36 police stations in Madhya Pradesh's Balaghat district are searching for a former block medical officer accused of entering government service with a forged MBBS degree and borrowed identity.
26 October 2026
The Economic Offences Wing says a dental assistant at a primary health centre in Arnia secured training and a government job using an allegedly forged matriculation certificate.
25 October 2026