India, Nov. 2 -- A gardener employed on contract with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has been arrested after he was fund duping poor medical patients by using forged copies of the letterhead of the Delhi Chief Minister's Office, police said on Sunday.

The arrested man, Sonu, 27, a resident of Tagore Garden, was arrested on October 30 following a complaint from the CMO, police said.

The scheme of forgery was busted when officials from Maharaja Agrasen Hospital in Delhi sent an email to the CMO seeking confirmation of a letter they had received recommending free treatment for a patient, Shyam Shankar, under the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) category. The hospital had even got a call from a man "identifying himself as Balbir...