27-year-old woman posing as AIIMS Junior Doctor arrested for duping man of Rs 1 lakh

The accused has been identified as Shubhi Trivedi, a resident of Badaun district in Uttar Pradesh, they said.

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In a complaint lodged on April 18, the man said he met the woman when he visited the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here on March 21 for the treatment of his daughter.

Trivedi was wearing a doctor’s coat and introduced herself as a junior resident doctor in the Forensics and Toxicology department of the hospital. She promised to expedite the treatment and charged Rs 96,000 in its lieu, the complaint read. 

The accused is a graduate of Microbiology from Bareilly and an MSc in Forensic Science.

She asked the victim to visit AIIMS after ten days but when he did, he could neither find her at the hospital, nor reach her through phone calls, a senior police officer said.

According to the police, the accused had purchased a white doctor’s coat with her name stitched to it as JR in Forensics and Toxicology department. Using the degrees for personal greed, she used to cheat people on the pretext of speedy treatment at AIIMS.

During the investigation, the police analysed the CCTV footage at the hospital and circulated a sketch of the suspect.

She was nabbed on Tuesday from near the AIIMS OPD donning a doctor’s coat with her name and fake designation stitched on it, the officer said.

“The woman was back at the outpatient department of AIIMS in the same attire and bearing the same name. She was apprehended and questioned, during which she confessed to the crime,” said a DCP.

An investigation is underway to find whether the woman scammed more people using the same modus operandi, police added.

“My child was medically examined at AIIMS, but it was a long wait for the surgeries. The doctor spoke with great compassion to my wife and said she could make arrangements to help us jump the queue. She said she knew the right people and was able to get a stamp on our medical documents within minutes. We believed she was a doctor,” Chand said. 

After paying the money, Chand informed HT, “She said I could visit the hospital 10 days later to get my child treated. But when the time came in April, she could not be contacted, which is when I approached the police,”

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