India, April 30 -- The Dadar metropolitan magistrate court on Tuesday granted bail to a man who was practising as a fake orthopaedic surgeon with a forged master's degree. Judicial magistrate SP Bhosale ordered 44-year-old Dr Atul Wankhede to be released upon furnishing Rs.50,000 in cash.

The reason for granting bail was not clear at the time of going to press.

Apart from endangering patients' lives, Dr Wankhede was also booked for threatening individuals and fraudulently obtaining official identity documents and a passport. Police said he acquired his documents using the address of a home he was not residing in. He was arrested from his house in Juhu while trying to flee the country following a complaint by an old patient, Avinash Sami...