Bogus Doctor Racket Busted, Retired Director of Maharashtra Council Arrested

Mumbai: Based on a tip-off that a retired director of the Maharashtra council of Medical, Paramedical Science in Ahmednagar provided fake registration certificates to many fake doctors, the crime branch arrested him.

The police first received a tip-off about some quacks and later informed the crime branch about this case. Following the crime branch unit, 7 raided the Pant Nagar vicinity of Ghatkopar and arrested him.

TOI reports that the 65-year-old accused named Neelkant Namdev Misal has been taken into custody by the crime branch from Taloja jail in a two-year-old similar cheating case. 

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Earlier Medical Dialogues team had reported on a similar case where the crime branch team busted a fake surrogacy racket operating from Hudkeshwar and arrested Vilas Bhoyar, a BAMS doctor along with two others for allegedly selling a baby to a childless couple from Hyderabad.

After the crime branch received a tip-off about the incident, they started digging into the matter. The doctor and the broker were arrested by a team led by DCP Chinmay Pandit on Tuesday. The police arrested the third person named Naresh Rao aged 48 at around 1 pm on Wednesday. He is a resident of Mudaliar Layout, Shanti Nagar.

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