In a shocking incident, Pune Police Wednesday arrested a 34-year-old man for posing as a doctor and cheating patients across Pune over the last 10 years.
The accused would pose a doctor and take money from patients on the pretext of performing an emergency treatment.
The whole cheating incident came to light after a team from Bundgarden police station in Pune were probing two recent cheating cases, where patients of Sassoon General Hospital in Pune were approached by a caller identifying himself as a doctor.
The accused identified as Amit Kamble would pose as Dr Deshpande or Dr Kulkarni and would cheat patients from various hospitals including government-run and private in the past.The accused would call patient or their kins and ask for money on the pretext of purchasing injections that are not available locally.
The police have arrested him and in his interrogation, revealed to the police that he had been cheating people to earn money since his parents passed away years ago. He has also said that he has been suffering from a serious ailment from sometime and needed money for the treatment, a claim the police are verifying.