Karur quack on run arrested at city bus terminus

Karur quack on run arrested at city bus terminus

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Chennai:18.10.2020

Police on Friday arrested a 41-year-old man at the mofussil bus terminus in Koyambedu for illegally practising medicine at Karur.

The apprehension by a team of the Arumbakkam police was based on a complaint lodged by the Tamil Nadu Medical Council. A court later sent Jayapandi, the accused who had been nabbed while waiting to board a bus for Karur, to the Central Prison at Puzhal. He had come to the city to meet a relative, a police officer said.

Preliminary inquiries by police revealed that Jayapandi had submitted his qualification documents to the state medical council in 2018 and sought a licence to practise as a ‘doctor’. However, during the verification the documents were found out to have been forged and the medical council authorities lodged a formal complaint with the Arumbakkam police.

A case was registered, but Jayapandi, of Vishwanathapuri near Aravakurichi in Karur in central Tamil Nadu, went absconding. Two weeks ago, the Madras high court had sought status report in this particular case, where the man had got forged documents in the name of Annamalai university.

During interrogation, Jeyapandi reportedly told police that he had received fake certificates for ₹25 lakh from three men identified as Selvaraj, Chidambaram Gautam and Martin in Trichy.

The Arumbakkam police registered a case under Section 466 (whoever forges a document or electronic record), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (whoever fraudulently or dishonestly uses as genuine any document or electronic record), 474 (whoever has in his possession any document or electronic record), 484 (whoever counterfeits any property mark used by a public servant) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).