MP: Two doctors arrested for defrauding money under Ayushman Bharat scheme

"We arrested hospital director Dr Vivek Singh Parihar and his associate Amit Ingle, who embezzled lakhs of rupees in the treatment of around 200 patients under the scheme," crime branch deputy commissioner of police Amit Kumar said.

The accused have been booked under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, he said.

The accused were being interrogated and will be produced in court, Kumar said.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier published that a 22-year-old youth has been arrested for allegedly posing as a registered doctor for 10 days at the Thiruvananthapuram medical college and taking a huge amount of money by scamming patients at the hospital.

The accused has been identified as Nikhil who acted as a doctor and started duping money from Rinu who was admitted to the hospital's medicine department to treat his injured leg. The accused wearing a white coat and a stethoscope went to Rinu to guide him with the test and other procedures required to finish his treatment. 

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