Quack arrested for operating clinic in Thane
Thane: The Thane police on Friday arrested a quack for allegedly running a clinic despite not being qualified for it. He was found administering medications and charging patients excessively.
According to the PTI report, the police arrested Abdul Farid alias Saddam Sharif Khan (34), a resident of Gaibi Nagar in Bhiwandi town, in the early hours of the day, an official with the Shanti Nagar police station said.
The arrest followed a raid by medical officers from the Bhiwandi Nizampur Municipal Corporation, who discovered that Khan’s clinic was being run without a valid permit. The accused was found administering medications and charging patients excessively.
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The accused treated patients with medicines and charged them exorbitantly, he said.
Based on a complaint by medical officers, an FIR was registered against the accused under sections 319(2) (cheating by personation), 318(4)(cheating), and 125 (act endangering life or personal safety of others) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and Maharashtra Medical Practitioners Act, 1961, the official said, news agency PTI reported.
