Four fake doctors jailed
A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday arrested four fake doctors and sentenced each of them to two years' imprisonment and shut down two fake herbal medicine centres in the capital's Moghbazar.
Officials of Rab-3 said they conducted raids at India Herbal Medical and Kolkata Herbal Medical Care and shut them down. Fake doctor Golam Faruk, 36, owned both centres, which do not have approval of Directorate of Drug Administration to produce medicine.
Along with Faruk, Saheb Ali, 30, Masud Islam, 31, and Md Mashiur Rahman, 32, were sentenced.
AHM Anwar Pasha, executive magistrate of Rab, said the “doctors” used to cheat patients by selling fake and adulterated medicine.
“They garner patients by publishing attractive and indecent advertisements in local cable network and posters. They also have representatives who bring in patients,” said Anwar.
“To earn trust patients' trust, the 'doctors' hung photographs of some of the country's renowned and respected personalities with their medicines, which we assume are fake pictures, he added.
The court also found that none of the convicted have any institutional education. They influenced patients to buy their medicines by conducting fake pathological tests in their lab in the presence of the patients, Anwar said adding, “The lowest price of their products is 12,000.”
"They make medicines by mixing allopathic and homeopathic medicines. Some of their medicines are nothing but mixture of sugar and water," said Anwar, who led the court.
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