Mangalore: Fake Lady Doctor Caught on 'Duty' at Father Muller Hospital
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Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (PS)
Mangalore, Dec 13: A young girl who was caught cheating innocent patients in Father Muller hospital by posing as a doctor and collecting money from them, was arrested here on Tuesday December 13.
The girl, who identified herself as Aishwarya Rai during police interrogation, hails from Vittal and has studied up till first year PUC in a college in Mulleria.
Sources said that she used to wear doctor's coat and carry stethoscope, 'checking' on patients and collecting money from them. She was caught on Tuesday by one of the doctors on duty while attempting to extract Rs 500 from a patient.
Security personnel were called immediately, and on preliminary investigation, it was revealed that she was not a doctor and had no identity card on her.
The security personnel took her to a room where relatives of a few patients were asked if they had been decieved by her. The accused had been seen in the hospital premises since last week, one of them said.
Pandeshwar police are investigating the case.