The Mumbai Police Crime Branch on Tuesday conducted raids at six places in the Eastern suburbs of Mumbai and arrested six quacks operating as doctors in the area.

Surprisingly, these quacks had been operating in the area for almost half a decade and all of them were school dropouts, some studied only till class 5. These quacks not only did medical consulting but also had carried out surgeries on many patients.

The crackdown was conducted in the Govandi area of eastern suburbs which is a densely populated slum.

Acting on information sent by policemen, officials of unit 6 from the Mumbai crime branch posed as patients at the said clinics to verify the information. Once it was confirmed that the six quacks were operating without any medical education degree and certification, the raids were conducted.

Once the cops found that the six alleged doctors were quacks, they started questioning them regarding their formal education and medical degrees. Initially, the accused tried to mislead the cops but later succumbed to the questioning and revealed that not only did they have no medical degree but they did not even finish school. Two of them had studied till class 5.

The arrested accused have been identified as Mukul Amar Kisnadas, 34, who studied till class 11; Kamruddin Marufee, 53, has studied only till class 12; Maksood Ansari, 42, studied only till class 5; Mukhtar Ali Shah, 45, studied till class 5; Kishmat Shah, 31, studied till class 8; and Tayyab Chaudhari, 50, studied till class 6. None of the accused had any formal education or even a certification which could have been essential for practicing medicine.

"Legally these men are not even qualified to work as ward boys or assistants to paramedics. But they have been working as doctors of medicine and running clinics with patients ranging from kids to senior citizens," said a senior police official privy to the development.

The accused were handed over to Shivaji Nagar police station after interrogation. They were produced in court and remanded to police custody till February 10. The Mumbai Police has started a drive against quacks operating in the city and in the past 10 months have arrested 19 such bogus doctors across the city.



