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Class 10 pass ‘Fake Doctor’ held for ‘treating’ patients in Telangana

Hyderabad :  Acting on a tip-off a team comprising of police and health officials raided a clinic in Station Ghanpur mandal of the Jangaon district of Telangana to find that a Class 10 passed man posing as doctor was running the clinic. The accused, posing as a doctor, was running a clinic and was “treating” people for health problems particularly for piles and fistula in the last three to four years.

During interrogation, it was found that the accused did not have medical qualification and that he had worked as a senior compounder under different doctors and out of that “experience” he was “treating” patients, police said. Further investigations were on to ascertain on how many surgeries the accused had performed, police said. A case was registered on charge of cheating and other sections of the Indian Penal Code besides provisions of the Drugs and Magic Remedies Act.