Quack dupes woman in Gurugram, makes 132 cuts on her body, charges her ₹7 lakh
Hindustan TimesA man posing as a Unani practitioner made 132 incisions and pricks on a woman’s body to treat vitiligo and charged her ₹7.9 lakh for the procedure in Gurugram, police officers aware of the matter said on Friday, adding that the woman’s wounds developed an infection afterwards. Investigators said they have booked the suspect under cheating and common intention sections and are ascertaining whether he was a quack doctor or an impostor posing as a Unani practitioner. The woman, Meetu Thakur, 45, a resident of Sector 21 who suffers from vitiligo, told the police that she was at a mall in DLF Phase 1 on July 21 when a man approached her and said to her that his mother, too, suffered from vitiligo and that a doctor in Ahmedabad, a Unani practitioner, had cured her, said investigators. Based on Thakur’s complaint dated August 18, a first information report was registered after a preliminary inquiry on Thursday at Palam Vihar police station under sections 34 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code.
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