Engineer in judicial custody for posing as cardiologist
JHANSI, Dec. 13 -- Conman Abhinav Singh, who impersonated a cardiologist and forged documents to secure a position at the Government Medical College in Lalitpur, was sent to judicial remand on Friday, said the police.
SP (Lalitpur) Mohd Mushtaq confirmed the recovery of several forged documents from Singh's possession during investigation. Singh, who had been living with the false identity of his brother-in-law, Dr Rajive Gupta, was uncovered following a complaint by his sister, the wife of Dr Gupta, lodged at the medical college.
After a daylong investigation by a three-member committee constituted by district magistrate Satya Prakash on Thursday, an FIR was lodged against the accused on a written complaint by additional CMO Dr Ramnaresh Soni under sections 319(2), 318(4), 338, 336(3)(4), 340(2) of the BNS late at night.
In his confession statement issued on Friday, Abhinav Singh, a B Tech computer science degree holder, said he landed a job in the customs department in Mumbai in 1999, where he was implicated in a scrap scam involving crores. Singh absconded from his work place, after which he was declared as a proclaimed offender. In between, Singh forged documents of his brother-in-law Dr Rajive Gupta who lives in the US, and started working as a doctor in Mathura.
The CBI apprehended Singh in 2019. The court sentenced him to 16 months in jail and imposed a fine of Rs 8 lakh. After coming out of jail, Singh came to know about the recruitment drive for doctors in Lalitpur through the national health mission. He applied and was selected as a specialist in the CCU of the district hospital as an outsourced employee. For this, he forged a number of documents, including the degrees of his brother-in-law, Aadhaar and PAN card, said authorities. According to police, Singh said he read a few books on cardiology to crack the interview, which he did easily. In 2023, he was shifted to the then newly constructed medical collage. He further admitted that without any knowledge of medicines, he continuously treated thousands of patients for these many years....
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