5 quacks held for running clinic in Goregaon, Mumbai

Mumbai: Mumbai Crime Branch on Saturday arrested five quacks from Goregaon, for allegedly running a medical clinic without a valid degree.

The arrested accused have been identified as Ibrar Sayyed age (24) compounder, Sarvesh Yadav (31), Chhotelal Yadav (33), Omprakash Yadav (45) and Sapna Yadav (29).

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According to the information received from Unit 10 of the Mumbai Crime Branch, five clinics were being run without a doctor's certificate in Goregaon's Dongri and Prem Nagar area.

Based on a tip-off, the crime branch officials acted as a patient and went to the clinics to arrest them.

When the crime branch officials asked for a degree, no one was able to produce the degree as they had none and one of the accused used to treat people as a compounder.

The police have registered a case under Section 419, 420 and 336 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 33 and 36 of the Maharashtra Medical Practitioner Act.

Further investigation is underway.

Medical Dialogue team recently reported that a case had been lodged against a 55 years old man for using the fake registration of some dead doctor in Maharashtra, an official said on Sunday. According to the police, the accused was treating patients at a hospital on the basis of a fake degree. The accused, Vinod Rai, had studied only till Class 10 and was treating patients at a hospital in Ulhasnagar town and medical officer of the Ulhasnagar civic body came across the fraud during an inspection and lodged a police complaint.

Another case was lodged by The Tokawade police against a 72-year-old quack who worked as a security guard was arrested who worked in the Primary Health Department and started his own clinic after retirement in 2009. 

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