An official allegedly tampered with the website to make fake permissions appear real. The probe is still going on and arrests are expected to be made soon, Delhi police said.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, during her budget speech also had said that the "government plans to set up more medical colleges by utilising the existing hospital infrastructure under various departments".
The Modi government counts nearly doubling the number of new medical colleges as one of its successes. But experts question the wisdom of such an approach.
In the first phase, the government is launching 58 government medical colleges in 20 states/UTs, 24 colleges in phase two in eight states, and 75 medical colleges in 18 states in the third phase.