AC mechanic Posing as Doctor: Patient dies during transit

"We agreed to pay Rs 8,000 for the ambulance and another Rs 8,000 for the doctor. But when we wanted to sit with Arijit and the doctor in the ambulance, the driver didn't allow us. We were asked to hire another vehicle," Ranjit Das, Arijit's father told TOI.

The boy’s father and brother started suspecting the two, when they saw the driver fixing the oxygen cylinder instead of the doctor. Meanwhile, when they reached the hospital,  Arijit was declared brought dead by the doctors.

The family discovered at the hospital that the doctor accompanying Arijit was an air-conditioning mechanic, Sarfarajuddin, who first claimed that he was a technician who assisted doctors at Annapurna Nursing Home, but later confessed.

"They told us that he was a big doctor and he won't allow any disturbance in the ambulance. We didn't know he wasn't a doctor," Ranjit told NDTV.

While the nursing home claims of having no connection whatsoever with the culprit , the police has launched an investigation on the case.