Bhopal, April 13 -- A hospital in Noida discovered that the two post-graduate degrees possessed by Narendra Vikramaditya Yadav were fake and filed a complaint with the local police back in 2013, years before the elaborate fraud perpetrated by the MBBS doctor finally brought him under the scanner after the deaths of at least seven people between January and February this year.

A senior Madhya Pradesh police officer said that fake degrees were first discovered by Noida-based Kailash Hospital in 2013, along with fake certification courses.

"The documents (found at Yadav's Prayagraj home on Friday) indicate that Kailash Hospital and Heart Institute found his degrees in Doctorate of Medicine (DM) and DM in cardiology fake along with the cert...