The accused, a Class XII pass-out from Jharkhand, had been posing as Dr. Ramesh Chandra Jha to secure employment at the Rourkela Government Hospital (RGH) dialysis centre. He managed to secure the job through Rahi Care Dialysis, a Chandigarh-based outsourcing firm.
Medical Dialogues had previously reported that a quack working as a medical officer at Rourkela Government Hospital (RGH) in Odisha, hired through an outsourcing agency, has been arrested for forgery and impersonation. This marks the third instance of his apprehension on similar charges.
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The fraud was uncovered when the man attempted to secure a personal loan of ₹16.53 lakh from a private non-banking financial company. During the document verification process, the financial institution discovered that the man had submitted medical certificates belonging to Dr. Jha, but with his own photograph pasted onto them.
Following the discovery, the finance company lodged a formal complaint with the Raghunathpalli police on June 26, 2024. The man was subsequently arrested under multiple sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), including those related to forgery, cheating, and impersonation.
Two days later, on June 28, the area manager of Rahi Care Dialysis, Mayur Agarwal, filed a separate complaint revealing that the man had been drawing a regular salary from the firm while posing as a qualified doctor.
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According to TOI, Public prosecutor Akshaya Kumar Sahoo, who represented the state during the proceedings, said chief judicial magistrate (first class), Sarmista Padhi, pronounced the verdict after examining 14 witnesses. The sentences under different IPC sections will run concurrently. The judge also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000, with an additional month's imprisonment in case of non-payment. This was not his first brush with the law. He had previously been convicted in April 2022 for a similar case of medical impersonation at the Nuagaon Primary Health Centre (PHC), where he worked from 2016 to 2019. In that case, the Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC), Sundargarh, had sentenced him to two years of rigorous imprisonment.
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