A person, impersonating as doctor and stealing the gold ornaments from the female patients from some leading private hospitals across Tamil Nadu was arrested in Nasik in Maharashtra and brought to the city today, a top police official said.
The modus operandi of the fake doctor, Arjun Baraskele, hailing from Hubli in Karnataka, was to approach the female patients, particularly pregnant women, posing as a doctor and ask them to remove the gold ornaments they were wearing on the pretext of carrying out medical tests and taking them away, the city police commissioner, A K Vishwanathan told reporters here.
Based on the complaints from some hospitals in the city, a special police team was formed and managed to reach Arjun at a hospital in Nasik and nabbed him, he said.
He was said to have confessed that he played the trick in 11 hospitals in Tamil Nadu in the districts of Coimbatore, Madurai, Tiruchirapalli, Vellore, Chennai and Tuticorin and nearly one kg of gold ornaments were stolen, which were pledged in various shops, Vishwanathan said.
After formalities in Nasik, he was brought here and after registering a case he was produced before a court and remanded to custody and lodged in the Central Jail.
VIshwanathan appreciated the members of the special team for their good work.
