Mumbai, 07 Oct (HS): Bogus doctors practising in

Mumbai’s suburbs without any necessary registration, have been booked by the Crime

Branch of the Mumbai Police. Ten such doctors were detected from Bhadup,

Boriwali, Jogeshwari, Dahisar and Mankhurd areas. Medicines and syringes worth

Rs 2.20 lakh were also seized from their clinics. Some Ayurvedic and Unani

medicines with expiry dates were also recovered by the police.

According to Police, the accused were practising

medicine without proper qualification and registration. Most of the medicines

were for treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD). The names of the

clinics were projected connection with religious places.

Offences under Sections 33 and 36 of the Maharashtra

Medical Practitioners Act, 1961 were registered. The accused have been

identified as Sheikh Mohammad Anwar Mohammad Aslam. Mohammad Nabi Hussain

Mhmmad Farid Sheikh, Imran Abdul Jabbar Khan, Dayashankar Hublal Sinh, Junaid

Hashamtulla Siddiqi, Shahabuddin Nizamuddin Sheikh, Naved Jahed Khan, Rashid

Hussain Beig, Rashid Hussain Afzal Hussain Sheikh and Nihal Arafat Hussain

Sheikh.

Further investigation has been initiated.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Ajay Vasant Mardikar