Three fake doctors arrested

Three fake doctors were arrested by the police from several places in the state on Tuesday.

In the first incident, Howrah police have arrested one Mrinal Bhattacharya who used to run to a chamber at Jhikia area under Joypur police station in Howrah as a bachelor of dental surgeon. Police came to know during the investigation that the accused had been running the chamber for nearly two years.

Police have started a probe in this regard after receiving a complaint from a doctor from Amta primary health centre. Cops visited the chamber of the accused on Tuesday morning and found that Bhattacharya was treating some of the villagers.

The officers asked him to produce documents to prove that he had done his BDS but he failed. He not only failed to produce his certificates but also his registration number. He was arrested.

Police said that the accused had been practising at his chamber without a valid registration. In the face of interrogation, the accused admitted that he did not get registration from the Dental Council of India. He has been remanded to police custody after being produced before a court in Howrah.

In another incident, the Cooch Behar police arrested two more fake doctors. The sub-divisional officer of Mathabhanga on Tuesday morning conducted a raid at a chamber in Mathabhanga and held the two, one of whom had been practicing as a dentist while the other is a homeopathic doctor. None of the accused was able to produce any valid certificates. They were handed over to the police.

A senior health official said that the district administration and health officials were carrying out a probe to arrest all the fake doctors operational in the area.

Meanwhile, the CID officers who are carrying out a probe in the fake doctor case interrogated a senior health department official at Swasthya Bhavan in

connection with the appointment of a fake doctor Khusinath Halder who was earlier arrested by the investigating agency. Halder was appointed as a doctor in Madarihat block primary health centre.