Chhattisgarh’s pre-death speaker: “fake” cardiologist, private hospital booked for crime

“Fake” cardiologist Narendra Yadav, alias Narendra John Camm, and a Bilaspur Hospital, were booked for homicide because former Parliament Speaker Rajendra Prasad Shukla died 19 years ago, an official said Sunday. He said that in addition to the murder-related murder (Article 304), the charges of cheating and forgery in the Indian Penal Code registered against Yadav and private hospitals on Saturday night.

Yadav, who was arrested for the death of seven patients, operated Shukla in a hospital in Madhya Pradesh, followed by the death of the former commentator.

Shukla, who was then a member of the MP for the Kota Parliamentary Constituency, died in 2006 at a private hospital in Bilaspur. From 2000 to 2003, he served as the first speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Chhattisgarh.
The former spokesperson’s son, Pradeep Shukla, recently filed a police complaint accusing Yadav of being associated with a private hospital when his father was taken there.

“Yadav performed a heart surgery on my father, and he was released for 18 days before he was pronounced dead on August 20, 2006. The hospital management has taken the treatment of my father from the state government, which is 2 million rupees.”

Pradeep Shukla said they recently learned about Yadav and death at Damo Hospital through media reports. SSP Singh said police found Yadav’s degree to be fake and that documents he registered with the Indian Medical Council/Chhattisgarh Medical Council have not been traced. Without proper scrutiny, hospital administrators played a role by hiring Yadav as a cardiologist, assembled speakers with front-end lives as well as many other heart patients.

Yadav, who was arrested after receiving a complaint at the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), claimed that seven people died in Damoh’s Mission Hospital, and he operated the patient in the name of treating heart disease.

Yadav sent three resumes between 2020 and 2024 to demand work, claiming he had already operated thousands of patients, directors of an Indore-based employment consulting firm said last week.

Yadav describes himself as a senior cardiologist in his nine-page resume sent to the company in 2024 and speaks permanently in Birmingham, UK. The director said he also mentioned that he was involved in the surgery of thousands of heart patients, including 18,740 “coronary angiography” and 14,236 “coronary angioplasty.”

Yadav calls himself a victim of the “big plot” and claims his degree is real.