25-year-old man poses as woman doctor at Nagpur hospital, arrested

After the MSF personnel alerted the police, the deception came to light and the man was arrested, he said. He was married but his wife had left him, the official said.   

A case was registered against him for cheating, impersonation and other relevant offences under the Indian Penal Code and further probe was on, the police official said.      

Dr Sagar Pande, deputy medical superintendent at IGGMCH, said, “Our security personnel had never seen this person before and frankly no doctor goes around hiding their face. We have Muslim female doctors who wear a hijab that covers the head only. But since the burqa was hiding the entire face, security personnel became suspicious”, reports Opindia.                 

The accused was taken into custody and booked under IPC section 171 (Wearing garb or carrying token used by public servant with fraudulent intent), 380 (theft), and 451 (House-trespass in order to commit offence punishable with imprisonment).