Pune: Man poses as doctor for 10 years, finally arrested for cheating patients
Pune: Following the train of two recent cheating cases, Pune Police has got hold of an old player in this game and arrested a 34-years-old man who was posing as a doctor. He has been arrested with charges of cheating patients and duping money from their relatives for the last 10 years.
The Police have made the arrest on Tuesday, after analyzing the technical data available in the case.
The Bund Garden Police have identified the accused as Kamble, a 34-year-old school dropout, who belonged to Navi Peth. From 2010, the man would allegedly pose as a doctor and take money from the relatives of the patient on the pretext of buying expensive medicines. The areas of the operation for this fake doctor had been Sassoon General Hospital and other private hospitals in the city.
As per the latest media report by the Indian Express, Police authorities got to know about this scam after a team from Bundgarden Police Station started a probe for two cheating cases in recent times. In those cases, the patients of Pune-based Sassoon General Hospital had been approached by a caller who claimed to be a doctor. He asked for money from the patients with the excuse of buying injections that were locally unavailable. The accused identified himself as Dr Deshpande and duped the families of two patients of Rs 7,000 and Rs 20,000. The case had been registered with Bundgarden Police in January.
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