Following a video which went viral on a web portal showing a fake doctor practising at three different clinics across north Kashmir, department of health and police sealed one of the clinics at Hyderbagh Pattan and seized its record.
Tariq Ahmad Teli, 32, a resident of Chokar Pattan, according to video was “practising” as orthopaedic doctor falsely claiming to be MBBS from MTR university Vijaywada, Andhra Pradesh, and MS from Rajiv Medical College.
It has surfaced that the imposter was not even graduate and has been illegally practising for the last several years across north Kashmir.
“The fake doctor who is not even graduate used to see hundreds of patients every day at three different clinics across north Kashmir. Ironically, the number of patients visiting his clinic grew each passing day,” said Altaf Hussain, a medical representative from north Kashmir.
Following a complaint by the block medical officer Pattan, the police station Pattan has lodged FIR 156/2018 against the imposter doctor under sections 420, 336 RPC and search is on to arrest him, sources said.
BMO Pattan, Dr Masrat while talking to Greater Kashmir said the clinic at Hyderbag Pattan, where the imposter doctor was practising, has been sealed following violation of norms by the owner of the clinic.
“Besides violating the guidelines set up for operating a clinic, the owner of the clinic has failed to verify the antecedents of the doctors operating at his clinic. Therefore, the clinic has been sealed in presence of a magistrate and the police officials,” the BMO said.
As per sources, the authorities are likely to take action against other clinics also where the imposter doctor was practising.