‘Vasool Rani MBBS’, 26, lands in police net
TNN | Jan 10, 2019, 06.08 AM IST
CHENNAI: Holding the overcoat and stethoscope handed over by a medical student standing on a suburban train she convinced a man she was a doctor and married him.
For more than a month after the wedding, she continued the charade travelling from Tiruttani to Chennai daily and roaming about the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital in doctor’s whites.
On Tuesday, the curtains came down on the act of J Sharmila, 26, after the elderly woman from whom she took 800 promising a ‘fast scan’ and vanished went to police.
Her husband Jayakanthan, a packaged water delivery man, then came to know of her deception and a court sent her to jail.
A police officer said Sharmila of Manavur in Tiruttani, who completed BSc at a college in the city, first met Jayakanthan while travelling on a suburban train to Chennai Central.
A doctor’s whites and medical equipment were piled up in her lap, but he was not to know that they had been given by a trainee doctor who had no place to sit in the crowded compartment. Jayakanthan soon began referring to her as a doctor and she played along.
The two fell in love and got married early in December 2018. Since then, Jayakanthan would drop her at Tiruttani railway station daily and she would travel to Chennai by train.
During ‘working hours’, she went around the huge hospital properly dressed and many patients offered the ‘doctor’ money for ‘quick service.’
She obliged and made sure she didn’t meet the victim after each ‘operation’. Each evening, she returned home, her pockets filled with cash.
On Tuesday, Lakshmi, 63, of Thirumullaivoyal, ran into Sharmila who promised to help her get a scan done without delay for fee. But, when the test took forever and the ‘doctor’ was nowhere to be found, Lakshmi began a frantic search.
She finally informed security guard Ramesh who asked her to to identify the suspect. Lakshmi did and Ramesh informed a team of patrolling police personnel.
They combed the hospital and nabbed Sharmila. She was taken to the police station on the premises for questioning.
Police seized a doctor’s coat, stethoscope, identity card, a GH-stamped letter along with a forged pay slip identifying her as being on the rolls of the hospital as trainee.
TNN | Jan 10, 2019, 06.08 AM IST
CHENNAI: Holding the overcoat and stethoscope handed over by a medical student standing on a suburban train she convinced a man she was a doctor and married him.
For more than a month after the wedding, she continued the charade travelling from Tiruttani to Chennai daily and roaming about the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital in doctor’s whites.
On Tuesday, the curtains came down on the act of J Sharmila, 26, after the elderly woman from whom she took 800 promising a ‘fast scan’ and vanished went to police.
Her husband Jayakanthan, a packaged water delivery man, then came to know of her deception and a court sent her to jail.
A police officer said Sharmila of Manavur in Tiruttani, who completed BSc at a college in the city, first met Jayakanthan while travelling on a suburban train to Chennai Central.
A doctor’s whites and medical equipment were piled up in her lap, but he was not to know that they had been given by a trainee doctor who had no place to sit in the crowded compartment. Jayakanthan soon began referring to her as a doctor and she played along.
The two fell in love and got married early in December 2018. Since then, Jayakanthan would drop her at Tiruttani railway station daily and she would travel to Chennai by train.
During ‘working hours’, she went around the huge hospital properly dressed and many patients offered the ‘doctor’ money for ‘quick service.’
She obliged and made sure she didn’t meet the victim after each ‘operation’. Each evening, she returned home, her pockets filled with cash.
On Tuesday, Lakshmi, 63, of Thirumullaivoyal, ran into Sharmila who promised to help her get a scan done without delay for fee. But, when the test took forever and the ‘doctor’ was nowhere to be found, Lakshmi began a frantic search.
She finally informed security guard Ramesh who asked her to to identify the suspect. Lakshmi did and Ramesh informed a team of patrolling police personnel.
They combed the hospital and nabbed Sharmila. She was taken to the police station on the premises for questioning.
Police seized a doctor’s coat, stethoscope, identity card, a GH-stamped letter along with a forged pay slip identifying her as being on the rolls of the hospital as trainee.
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