NASHIK: The
Nashik
Road police on Tuesday booked a 50-year-old person for allegedly practising ayurvedic medicine on his patients without holding the necessary licence and degree.
Mohan Daypuri residing in front of Bytco hospital, was booked under the Maharashtra Medical Practioners' Act, 1961, after Jitendra Shripad Dhaneshwar (41), a doctor and tuberculosis officer at the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC), filed a case against him.
S S Honmane, sub-inspector at the Nashik Road police station and the investigating officer in the case, said that complaints against the accused were made over a year ago, but the FIR was lodged only after a committee appointed by the NMC found the allegations to be true. The civic body official then field a complaint on Tuesday.
"There were around four complaints made against Daypuri by patients in July last year with the civic body. Acting on the complaints, the NMC officials formed a committee of experts to verify the information," said Honmane, adding that the committee was responsible for checking whether the doctor had legal permissions like licence and degree.
The committee found the doctor only held a degree to work as a general practitioner and had no evidence to prove that he was entitled to practice ayurveda.
There was a delay in filing an FIR as a number of members in the committee kept changing in the past one year.
Honmane told TOI that statements of the patients would also be recorded about the doctor's practice. "It would be investigated whether he prepared ayurvedic medicines, asked the patients to purchase from elsewhere and what methods were used to treat them," he added.
The accused would also be asked to produce evidence of degree. If he fails to do so, he may be booked under cheating.
The PSI also said it has not yet known for how long the doctor practiced the ayurvedica medicine.
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