On March 9, 2018, during a question-and-answer session in the Lok Sabha, three Members of Parliament – Chandu Lal Sahu, Santosh Ahlawat, and Rajesh Kumar Diwaker – posed a question to the then Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Ashwini Kumar Choubey. Their question: “The total number of doctors found guilty of professional misconduct during the last ten years along with the action taken in this regard, State/UT-wise?”
Choubey listed several names. At the top of the list was Dr Narendra Vikramaditya Yadav, who had been banned from practicing for five years in 2014 by the Indian Medical Council for professional misconduct.
However, despite the suspension, Yadav didn’t just disappear from the medical scene. He allegedly continued to practice, perform surgeries, work in top hospitals, and draw hefty salaries, all under the alias of a renowned British cardiologist, Dr N John Camm.
The Madhya Pradesh police arrested 53-year-old Yadav this week for allegedly performing surgeries at the Damoh’s Mission Hospital, leading to the death of seven patients. He is charged under sections of fraud, cheating, and forgery.
Satish Tapasya, the assistant district prosecution officer of Damoh, said, “The doctor was arrested from a flat in Prayagraj on Monday where he used to live alone. All his educational certificates are going to be checked. Police teams will be sent to the respective universities to check the credibility of his degrees.”
Arrest after patient’s kin complaint
Yadav’s arrest comes after Krishna Patel, the grandson of a patient who sought treatment from him at Damoh Mission Hospital, raised suspicion of the accused’s misconduct with the Damoh district collector Sudhir Kumar Kochar and the chief medical and health officer Dr MK Jain in February.
“After performing an angiography on my grandfather, he told us that he had multiple blockages and needed open-heart surgery at a big hospital in a metro city. I agreed to his advice, but when I asked for the angiography reports and DVDs and requested him to explain the details of the blockages, he bluntly refused to give them to us, claiming it was an emergency case,” Patel told Newslaundry.
After a heated discussion with the hospital administration, Patel was assured he would get the reports later and his grandfather was discharged. After neither receiving the reports from the hospital nor any response from Yadav and his staff, Patel took his grandfather for another angiography, which revealed not many blockages. “My grandfather didn’t need open-heart surgery. He was successfully treated with a simple stent,” he said.
This set off alarm bells, and Patel began inquiring about ‘Dr Camm’. After looking into Yadav’s background, he found that before coming to Damoh, the accused had worked at Lakshmi Narayan Hospital in Narsinghpur.
“I went there to inquire about him and learned that he had worked there for a while but suddenly disappeared after the hospital pressured him to provide his [educational and professional] documents,” Patel said.
He discovered that Yadav allegedly followed a suspicious pattern – he purposely stayed in hotels wherever he worked and would disappear as soon as he sensed any trouble.
On February 21, Patel filed a complaint with Kochar, reporting that during Yadav's time at Mission Hospital – from January 1 to February 12 – he performed nearly 15 surgeries, and approximately seven of these patients subsequently died.
In his complaint, Patel referenced a news report from the fact-checking website Boom, stating that Yadav was an impostor who had been using the name of renowned UK-based cardiologist Dr John Camm to deceive people. He alleged authorities had not acted on his complaint.
“In March, I connected with Deepak Tiwari, a social worker and the head of the district’s Child Welfare Committee. He helped me submit a complaint to the NHRC on March 25,” Patel said.
After that, the NHRC took notice. Chief medical and health officer Dr Jain lodged the complaint with the police on March 6, alleging that Yadav performed angiography and angioplasty procedures without registration with the Madhya Pradesh Medical Council. Jain also flagged significant discrepancies in Yadav’s educational and professional credentials.
According to a New Indian Express report, on Monday, Damoh district police’s cyber cell team accessed Yadav’s call details and found he repeatedly called a phone number in Prayagraj. Cops on the ground traced the number to a restaurant, which confirmed that they got multiple calls from Yadav, seeking the delivery of a chicken meal at his home. Through the address provided by the restaurant, the police tracked Yadav in a posh flat in a premier township and arrested him.
Shrut Kirti, superintendent of police in Damoh, stated, “Most of his degrees are fake. His MD degree from Calcutta Medical College is fraudulent, as are his foreign qualifications under the name ‘N John Camm’. He has admitted to this. However, he presented an MBBS degree from North Bengal Medical College in Darjeeling, which we are currently verifying to determine if it’s genuine or fake. He also claimed to have completed some courses abroad using his real name, Narendra Yadav. So far, we don’t have those certificates, but we are continuing our investigation to verify them.”
Kirti added that Yadav’s modus operandi was to change his location frequently. “He also makes foreign visits. He keeps joining hospitals at different places in India for a short duration and disappears, because of which local police didn’t follow him, and he manages to stay at large,” he said.
Drew Rs 8 lakh per month
Under the fake identity of Dr Camm, Yadav, through a Bhopal-based recruitment agency called Integrated Workforce Unique Solution Pvt Ltd, joined Mission Hospital in Damoh on January 1, 2025. His monthly salary was Rs 8 lakh.
Newslaundry reached out to IWUS but did not receive a reply. This copy will be updated if we get a response.
After working for a month, performing multiple surgeries, Yadav suddenly disappeared on February 12. He allegedly also stole the hospital’s Eco Portable Tab Probe machine – a portable ultrasound system worth around Rs 6-7 lakh.
When Yadav stopped responding to repeated calls from the hospital authorities, Mission Hospital officials filed a complaint with the Kotwali police station in Damoh on March 11. The complaint detailed his misconduct and explained how he had been hired as the head of the cardiology department. A copy of the complaint is available with Newslaundry.
When the media started reporting about Yadav’s arrest in the first week of April, he served a legal notice to Dainik Bhaskar, asking it to delete all articles against him and demanding an apology from them. He also stated in the notice that Dainik Bhaskar should pay him Rs 5 crore as compensation for damaging his reputation. A copy of the legal notice is available with Newslaundry.
In the notice, served through his lawyer, Yadav stated that he had clinically managed 64 patients during his stint of 42 days at the Mission Hospital in Damoh. He said he performed 19 angioplasties, out of which 17 were successful, and only two patients who were critically ill at the time of admission couldn’t be saved.
Pushpa Khare, the human resource in-charge at Mission Hospital, told Newslaundry, “We hired Dr N John Camm through an agency called IWUS at an annual salary of Rs 96 lakh as the head of cardiology. We paid the agency Rs 2.10 lakh upfront and were supposed to pay an additional Rs 2.90 lakh for the recruitment. The agency only shared his resume with us. We were thrilled when we were told he was an international doctor who had performed over 15,000 surgeries. After searching for his name, Dr N John Camm, we found his profile and were impressed by his achievements. We never imagined he would turn out to be a fraud.”
Khare, however, said that the figure of seven deaths was inaccurate. “Dr John performed angioplasty procedures on 13-14 patients, and unfortunately, about three to four of them passed away. However, the figure of seven deaths is incorrect,” Khare said.
First arrest in 2013
According to Yadav’s resume, a copy of which is with Newslaundry, he claimed to have worked at Klinikum Nuremberg Hospital in Germany from 2010 to 2018. However, Yadav was booked by the Noida Sector 20 police station on June 1, 2013, for cheating, forgery, and usage of forged documents.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the lawyer, who represented Yadav in the 2013 case, told Newslaundry: “In 2013, he was employed at Kailas Hospital and Heart Institute in Noida and was booked for furnishing fake certificates at the hospital. However, when no investigation took place in the case for three years, he approached the Allahabad High Court with a plea to quash the FIR. The court didn’t quash the FIR but directed police to finish off the investigation soon.”
Details of the further investigation are unclear.
According to parliamentary records, on February 21, 2014, Yadav was barred by the Indian Medical Council for five years.
The registration numbers provided by Yadav for the Indian Medical Council, State Medical Council, and German Medical Council do not list his name. Instead, they correspond to other medical practitioners, indicating that the registration numbers he provided were also incorrect.
Even the references listed in his work profile turned out to be fabricated. For example, he provided the name of Vishal Ranawat as the Director of Human Resources at Klinikum Nuremberg Hospital. Interestingly, Ranawat is the same person who recently sent a legal notice to media organisations on behalf of Yadav. He also claimed to be a senior attorney at the Supreme Court, with an office in Delhi’s Mandi House. A copy of the legal notice is available with Newslaundry.
Started medical school at age 15, became an MD at 23
According to his resume, Yadav, posing as Dr Camm, claimed to have earned his MBBS degree from North Bengal Medical College in Darjeeling between 1990 and 1996. However, his birth date is listed as January 1, 1975. If Yadav’s claim were true, he would have been just 15 years old when he supposedly began his medical studies in 1990 – an age when most students are still in Class 9.
According to Yadav’s claims, he pursued his MD from Calcutta Medical College between 1996 and 1999. From 1999 to 2001, he completed the course to become a member of the Royal College of Physicians from Glasgow and also worked at St George Hospital in London. This implies he completed his MD by the age of 23, which is highly unlikely in the field of medical sciences.
Yadav also claimed that from 2001 to 2004, he worked at St George Hospital in London as a unit faculty and teamed up with the famous cardiologist Dr John Cann, whose name Yadav allegedly adopted for his fraudulent activities.
In 2020, Yadav also created a Twitter account with Dr Camm’s name. Through his tweets, he urged India to send Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath to control riots in France, which gained traction after they were retweeted from the CM’s account. In 2023, he also sent a legal notice to Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of Alt News, after the latter accused him of being a fake doctor.
A fake Doctor, Prof N John Camm, posed as UK-based cardiologist, allegedly forged documents to pass off as a UK-based cardiologist and conducted heart surgeries at the hospital, Operates at Madhya Pradesh hospital; 7 dead.
— Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) April 5, 2025
I had exposed this fake 'Nationalist' Doctor in 2023. https://t.co/HoLzw625jK
From 2004 to 2005, he claimed to have completed a complex angioplasty program from Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Sciences in North Chicago in the United States under Dr Jeffrey B Lakier and was trained in bifurcation by Dr Marie Claude Maurice, both renowned names in the field of cardiology. He then purportedly joined Harper Hospital in Michigan for a course in laser angioplasty and rotacs procedure under J Richard Spear, another prominent expert in the field of laser intervention.
In 2006, Yadav returned to India and joined Wockhardt Hospital in Hyderabad as a senior interventional cardiologist, where he worked until 2009. In 2009, he moved to Fortis Hospital in Kota in Rajasthan, where he worked for a year. After that, he claimed to have gone to Germany and started working as an interventional cardiologist at Klinikum Nuremberg, considered one of the largest municipal hospitals in Europe.
Second arrest in 2019
In April 2019, Yadav was booked by the Kushaiguda police under the Rachkonda police commissionerate in Telangana. He was accused of illegal confinement and cheating his employees by failing to pay the salaries of 100 staffers at Poulomi Hospitals, which he had taken over under the name of Braunwald Hospitals, a company he had formed.
In his complaint to the police, Dr Khaja Faizouddin, an employee at the hospital, stated that on January 1, 2019, Yadav took control of the hospital’s management. On that day, Yadav and his “wife” Divya Rawat, issued regular payroll and appointment letters under the name of Braunwald Hospitals and hired new staff. However, when employees asked for their salaries, they were allegedly told to leave without any explanation or notice. When pressed for answers, Yadav allegedly used bouncers to threaten them and blocked their entry to the hospital premises to collect their wages.
Dr Faizouddin also claimed that Yadav deducted 10 percent of employees' salaries from their security deposits. Salaries for February, March, and April were withheld from around 100 employees. In an April meeting, Yadav promised to pay the salaries but then disappeared without a trace.
Newslaundry could not independently verify these allegations.
Yadav was arrested on May 16, 2019 near Chennai by the Kushaiguda police and brought to a court in Malkajgiri. It was later revealed that he had allegedly also cheated another medical institution, Hyderabad’s Himbindu Hospital, in a similar fashion.
Following Yadav’s arrest, Divya Rawat tagged KT Rama Rao, the working president of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (now Bharat Rashtra Samithi), in a tweet, accusing the police of misusing their power and seeking his intervention. KTR responded promptly, instructing the DGP of Telangana to investigate the allegations and advising Rawat to contact his office for further assistance.
The police later revealed that Rawat – who was assumed to be Yadav’s wife by the police, politicians, and employees – was not actually his wife. This revelation added another layer of deception to Yadav's already sketchy activities.
“Dr Yadav has no wife or children. Rawat is not his wife and, in fact, lives in Birmingham. We are currently investigating the nature of his connection with her,” Kirti told Newslaundry.
As for Yadav’s family, Kirti said he has a father and an older brother, who is married and resides in Kanpur. Yadav himself is from Kanpur, not Dehradun. He completed his schooling up to Class 12 in Kanpur and initially aspired to pursue MBBS. However, he failed in his first attempt and then enrolled in a BSc program.
“He claims to have passed the MBBS in his second attempt and later enrolled at a college in Darjeeling, but we are verifying whether that degree is legitimate or fraudulent,” Kirti said.
Corporate fraud
According to the Registrar of Companies for England and Wales, the company Braunwald Infra was incorporated in 2018 under Rawat’s name, with the registered address at International House, 12 Constance Street, London. The company was officially incorporated on March 5, 2018, and just two weeks later, on March 21, Yadav was made the director, gaining significant control over the company.
Similarly, in July 2014, Yadav and Rawat had jointly incorporated another company, Braunwald Heart, with a registered address at 81 Devonshire Road, Birmingham. They also listed a common address at West Bromwich, Birmingham, in the company's official documents. These business connections further raise questions about their relationship and activities, adding more layers to the intrigue surrounding Yadav and Rawat.
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