Fake Assam physician who carried out 50 caesarian sections arrested

GUWAHATI The police in southern Assam’s Cachar district have arrested a faux physician, who carried out greater than 50 caesarean sections over a decade.

Pulak Malakar, the 43-year-old accused from the adjoining Sribhumi district, practised at a non-public hospital in Silchar, the Cachar district headquarters. He had constructed a status as an obstetrician and gynaecologist.

The police stated Mr. Malakar labored as a fourth-grade worker at varied hospitals in Barak Valley, comprising the Cachar, Hailakandi, and Sribhumi districts, earlier than changing into a “physician” with a faux MBBS certificates.

Cachar’s Senior Superintendent of Police, Numal Mahatta, stated the accused was arrested on August 3 and produced earlier than an area courtroom the next day. The courtroom despatched him to a six-day police remand.

“We acquired complaints in regards to the man treating sufferers by utilizing a faux diploma. Investigation revealed that his certificates from a authorities medical school in Odisha was faux,” Mr Mahatta stated.

“We got here to know that he was utilizing a faux diploma to work as a physician in Silchar since 2016,” he stated, including {that a} case was registered in opposition to the accused below related sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

Mr Mahatta stated the police have launched an investigation to search out out if the racket promoting faux MBBS levels was working from the Barak Valley.

The Assam authorities arrested a number of faux medical doctors and quacks after forming an Anti-Quackery and Vigilance Cell, which works with the police, in January. The particular unit was shaped a yr after The Assam Healing (Prevention of Evil) Practices Bill, 2024, was handed within the 126-member State Assembly, criminalising non-scientific magical therapeutic practices performed by people with malicious intent.