The Uttar Pradesh board that registers Ayurvedic and Unani practitioners has cancelled the registrations of 19 more practitioners after verification found that their Ayurveda degrees were not genuine, according to reports in Amar Ujala and The420.in on 30 October 2026.

The board has barred all 19 from treating patients with immediate effect and has filed a complaint at Hussainganj police station in Lucknow. Both reports say the station in-charge indicated the complaint would be added to an FIR already registered in an earlier case.

How the cases came to light

The board is verifying the degrees of practitioners who registered with it from 2015 onwards. According to the reports, 14 of the 19 practitioners registered in 2021-22 and five in 2024.

Their degrees were allegedly issued in the names of institutions in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Haryana. Amar Ujala reported that the colleges and universities concerned confirmed during verification that the degrees were fake. The board has served notices on each practitioner and begun penal proceedings. None of the practitioners has been convicted, and the allegations remain to be tested.

Clinics and hospitals also targeted

The state's Ayurveda directorate has written to regional Ayurvedic and Unani officers in the districts concerned. It has asked them to cancel the operating licences of hospitals and clinics run by these practitioners and to act against any treatment they continue to provide. The practitioners are reported to be from more than a dozen districts, including Kanpur, Varanasi, Meerut, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Aligarh and Lakhimpur Kheri.

The action follows a similar exercise in August, when the board cancelled the registrations of 41 Ayurvedic practitioners over degrees found to be forged. Evidence collection in that case is continuing, according to Amar Ujala.

What patients and employers can check

Registration with a state medical board is only as reliable as the qualification behind it. Patients can ask a practitioner for their registration number and check it with the relevant state board. Hospitals and clinic operators can confirm degrees directly with the issuing university or college in writing before engaging practitioners, and recheck if a board announces cancellations. Anyone with information about unqualified practice can report it to the state board or the district health authorities.

Sources

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