India, May 7 -- Mumbai police commissioner Deven Bharti on Tuesday suspended senior police inspector Ravindra Katkar for registering a First Information Report (FIR) against a doctor and arresting him in violation of protocols and without informing his seniors.

The senior inspector had been questioned by his seniors after he registered the FIR against Dr Atul Wankhede last month, for allegedly using a forged master's degree to practice as an orthopaedic surgeon in a hospital in the western suburbs. The doctor was subsequently arrested from his residence in Juhu.

"When the doctor was produced before a metropolitan magistrate court, the court rejected our prayer for his police custody and instead remanded him to judicial custody," said a ...