India, Jan. 25 -- A doctor from Powai was cheated to the tune of Rs.4.71 crore by a fraud who claimed he would secure a seat for his son in the coveted MBBS course to study medicine and surgery. The doctor's son, who was studying in Ukraine before the Russia-Ukraine war, had been forced to leave his medical education halfway and was looking for a college in India to complete it.

According to the Powai police the complainant B Kakkar, 69, a resident of Hiranandani Gardens, Powai, runs a business fitting gas kits into vehicles. The police said that Kakkar was very close to his family doctor, Dr Thackeray, whom he had known for the past 25 years.

In April, 2022, Thackeray told Kakkar that due to the on-going war between Russia and Ukraine ...