Cops arrest doctor for having fake certificates
The Kherwadi police arrested a 56-year-old fake doctor on Wednesday night who fraudulently acquired an Ayurvedic certificate and illegally operated as a doctor in a Bandra slum.
According to an official from the Kherwadi police, the accused Sanmanbulu Ramchandra Calitelli, a school dropout, is from Andhra Pradesh and was living in Maharashtra Nagar area near Kherwadi for nearly three decades.
While he was running the clinic at his residence in Maharashtra Nagar, he was living with his wife and two sons at a slum in Worli.
In January this year, Anthony Lokhande, a local of Maharashtra Nagar saw a doctor’s certificate hanging on the wall of Calitelli’s house. Lokhande suspected something amiss and immediately tipped off the police, who initiated an investigation.
During interrogation, Calitelli produced a certificate on Ayurvedic medicine before the police, which he had received from an institution in Patna.
Investigating officer, assistant inspector, Adinath Ahire said, “When we informed the medical council, they said that Calitelli cannot practice in Mumbai or Maharashtra with this certificate.”
The police then got in touch with the Ayurvedic Unani council of Indian Medicine, from where Calitelli claims to have gained the certificate.
“After contacting the council thrice over a period of three months, we have not received any answer. We are sure that he has forged the certificate as well,” added Mr Ahire.
An FIR under Sections 465 (punishment for forgery), 467 (Forgery of valuable security), 468 (Forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (use of forged document), 419 (cheating by personation) of the Indian Penal Code read with 33 of the Maharashtra Medical Practitioners Act has been registered against Calitelli.
He was produced before a magistrate’s court on Thursday and has been remanded to police custody till April 20.
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