According to the news reports, the arrest came after the victim’s wife approached the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), which confirmed that the accused had no medical degree, lacked proper qualifications, and was not authorised to treat patients.
Medical Dialogues had previously reported that a quack was booked in Mumbai’s Chembur area after a 42-year-old rickshaw driver died shortly after allegedly receiving treatment and an injection at his clinic. Authorities have confirmed that the accused had no medical qualifications and was illegally practising medicine.
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The accused, running a clinic on Sion–Trombay Road in Chembur under the guise of a qualified medical practitioner, has been charged under the Maharashtra Medical Practitioners Act, 1961, BNS sections, causing death by a rash or negligent act with imprisonment up to five years, and cheating. He has been remanded to judicial custody. The case was registered after Sharmiladevi Nantun Jha, wife of deceased rickshaw driver Nantun Jha, complained, alleging that her husband died due to treatment provided by the bogus doctor.
According to the complaint, on December 7 last year, her husband was unwell and had undergone a molar extraction at Lions Club Charitable Trust, Chembur. He continued to work that night despite the pain. The next afternoon, when his swelling and discomfort worsened, his wife took him to "Om Clinic" in Suman Nagar, where the accused — identified as Dr Vishwakarma — examined him, reports TOI.
Jha mentioned that the accused allegedly injected her husband near the waist and prescribed tablets, charging Rs 400 for the treatment. Soon after returning home, the victim began experiencing acute breathing difficulties. Alarmed, the family rushed him back to the clinic, only to be advised to shift him elsewhere. He was taken to Sion Hospital, where doctors declared him dead on arrival.
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After his death, the family confronted the accused regarding the medication and injections he had administered, but he reportedly evaded their questions. Police later confirmed that the injections and drugs were given illegally, without any medical qualification or authorisation.
Local residents, according to police, claimed that the accused had been operating illegally in the area for years, allegedly by offering bribes to certain officials to keep his clinic functioning without scrutiny.
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