Thane Crime: Case filed against fake doctor for allegedly treating patients

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The police have registered a case against a 55-year-old man for allegedly treating patients by using the degree of a dead doctor, in Thane, a police officer said on Sunday.

The accused, Vinod Rai, had studied only till Std X and had been treating patients at a hospital in Ulhasnagar town for the last two years on the registration of a doctor who had died in 2019, Ulhasnagar police station's senior inspector Madhukar Kad said.

A medical officer of the Ulhasnagar civic body came across the fraud during an inspection and lodged a police complaint.

The police registered a case against the accused on Friday under IPC sections for cheating by impersonation and issued a notice to him, the officedr said, adding that no arrest has been made so far.

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