WHEN ROGUE ELEMENTS INFILTRATE A NOBLE PROFESSION

Globally, doctors, scientists, and teachers are the most trusted professions. Other professions with high but variable trust (depending on the country and corruption levels) include armed forces personnel, judges, and police. Fraudsters, criminal gangs, terrorist organisations, and anarchists of all kinds, infiltrate these professions to get a respectable cover for their nefarious activities and misuse professional facilities and logistics without raising suspicion.

- DR P.S.VENKATESH RAO

An insider in the forensics department helps alter or hide autopsy findings and test reports. To avoid a law-and-order situation, police inform university authorities in advance, before entering the campus, giving criminals inside enough time to cover up. On May 20, 2020, Islamic State of J&K (ISJK) armed terrorists travelled in a private ambulance from South Kashmir to Srinagar, and after the terror attack, they fled back to their safe hideout in another ambulance. After the car bomb on 10 November 2025, in Delhi, investigators found an AK-47 rifle from a former doctor's locker at GMC Anantnag. Doctors at a derecognised university hospital had clandestinely collected explosives and old cars for use as car bombs. Doctors and medical facilities function based on trust. Misuse of this trust, misinformation (as with the polio vaccine in Pakistan), and corruption in both hospitals and colleges will lead to the collapse of health services.

Corrupt, unethical institution founders, financiers, administrators, regulators, police, lawyers, teachers, and doctors have enabled the setting up of many clandestine colleges and universities, falsely claiming to have accreditation and misleading students and their parents, and issuing fake certificates. There are also fake doctors or quacks practising unhindered by regulatory authorities, who ignore those not registered with them. Terrorists and criminals are easily able to infiltrate fake institutions both here and abroad with indoctrinated students, who later qualify by corrupt means, using terror funding often by cryptocurrency or “hawala” routes, from coerced or misled legitimate sources like businesses or charities, or from illegal activities such as drug and human trafficking, kidnapping, and extortion. Drones across borders, underwater carrier drones, and the dark net are among many new enablers of criminal and terror activities.