Quack held for selling promising male child medicine in Gurugram
Gurugram: A quack was arrested by the health department team and police on charges of selling medicine to guarantee the birth of a male child in the Badshahpur area of Gurugram.
The accused was arrested from outside a temple, officials said.
According to the health department, a complaint was received that a person was selling medicine in the Arya Samaj Mandir in the area.
The department formed a team including medical officers Dr Harish, Dr Ravi, Dr Urvashi and Dr Jai Bharat. They sent a woman to the fake doctor as a decoy customer after giving her a signed note of Rs 2000, the officials said.
The quack took Rs 500 from the decoy customer and gave her medicine in a bottle. After getting a signal from the woman, the team reached the spot and nabbed him, they said.
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