India, March 11 -- The Delhi Police has apprehended an "18-year-old quack" for allegedly administering wrong injections to a 55-year-old man, leading to his death in Shahdara last week.

Police said the victim was complaining of abdominal pain and was taken to a local clinic in Raghubarpura, Gandhi Nagar, where the teenager, posing as a medical practitioner, allegedly gave him two injections.

The police on Monday said they nabbed the teenager, a resident of Krishna Nagar, and booked him on charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. Police said the age and the educational qualifications of the suspect is being verified.

The deceased, Mohammad Sataar, worked as a tailor at a garments workshop i...