New Delhi, August 4
Anyone with a stethoscope around the neck may not be a doctor! Just like 40-year-old Harish Goswami from Almora who was yesterday arrested from Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital here for allegedly posing as doctor.

With a stethoscope around his neck and fake ID cards, Goswami used to move around the OPDs of major hospitals like AIIMS, Safdarjung, RML etc, pretending to be a doctor. He would dupe patients who were recommended diagnostic tests by sending them to private labs and taking 30 per cent commission in return.

Goswami also borrowed money from doctors after befriending them. To avoid being caught, he frequently changed hospitals.

Goswami finally got caught after Dr Surendra Kumar of RML, from whom he had borrowed Rs 5,000 on the pretext of his grandmother's illness in May 2012, got suspicious when he did not come to the hospital for many days. Kumar also got to know that Goswami had also taken Rs 5,000 each from two other doctors of the hospital.

When Kumar checked Goswami's particulars from RML Hospital, AIIMS, the Delhi Medical Council and the Medical Council of India, he got to know that no doctor by such name existed.

The police has seized two fake ID cards of AIIMS, a fake stamp of RML Hospital and a stethoscope. The cops also found a voter ID card, ATM cards of ICICI and CITI Bank, bank passbooks and cheques issued in the name of Dr Harish Goswami.

A graduate, Goswami could pull off his fraud easily because he knew a lot about the way hospitals function, as he had been a frequent visitor to PGI, Chandigarh, where his uncle once worked 

New Delhi, August 4
Openly challenging the Delhi Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit, here today, senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj said that the Chief Minister should tell the people of Delhi that who has allowed her to "loot" them on the issue of water supply and power tariff. The Delhi government is privatising water supply for committing heavy corruption.

Addressing a conference of the resident welfare associations (rwas) of the Delhi at Talkatora Stadium that was attended by more than 4,500 RWAs on the issue of making inhuman decisions of steep hike in the power tariff and making Delhi waterless by handing over water supply system to private players, Sushma said that Article 21 of the Constitution of India guarantees fundamental rights to life to every citizen of the country.

Food and water are the basic requirements of life. Water is such precious gift of nature which has been given free to every creature. The government is only the trustee of this resource (water). Selling water to foreign companies is violation of the Constitution, insult to the Indian religious scriptures and fraud with the poor people of the country, she said.

Sushma said that on the one hand Supreme Court says that the food grains rotting in the godowns be distribute among the poor free of cost and on the other, the anti-people Congress government is commercialising water. She called upon the rwas that they should get united against this atrocity of the Congress government.

Chief of the Delhi unit of the BJP Vijender Gupta, who presided over the conference, said that presence of such large number of members of the RWAs in Talkatora Stadium is witness of the fact that the people of Delhi are suffering due to the atrocities and anti-people decisions of the government. They want change. Now the time has come for the people to unite because the Congress government of Delhi should decrease the power tariff, withdraw privatisation of water and change its anti-people policies, otherwise it will have to face defeat.

National general secretary of the party Vijay Goel said that Sheila has been in power for the past 14 years, yet 30 per cent people of the capital are not being supplied drinking water and 40 per cent do not get the facilities of sewer system.

New Delhi, August 4
With the arrest of two persons, special staff of the Delhi police (outer district) has busted a gang that was allegedly making fake caste certificates.

The arrested persons were identified as Vijay and Pardeep Kumar.

The police received a tip off that a tout, Vijay, who prepare forged caste certificates, would be coming near Rohini courts. The police laid a trap near gate No. 5, Rohini courts. Constable Ajay Pal was deputed as decoy customer and head constable Hari Chand as shadow witness.

The deal was finalised in Rs 4,000 for getting a forged caste certificate. Vijay told the constable to meet him in the evening at the same venue to collect the certificate. In the night, as per assurance, Vijay delivered the forged caste certificate allegedly issued from the office of Deputy Commissioner Delhi Administration to Ajay Pal at Bal Bharti School near FSL Rohini.

The forged certificate signed by Executive Magistrate, Delhi, was in the name of Ajay Pal son of Satbir Singh. The caste of the constable has been mentioned as Siglikar (SC).

On getting the signal, the police apprehended Vijay. During interrogation, Vijay said that he is a tout in Rohini and Tis Hazari Courts and deals in preparation of fake caste certificates to aspirants against monetary gain. He was earlier working with revenue officials in the office of Deputy Commissioner, Revenue. He came to know about the format and other details from there and thereafter he managed one such certificate. With the help of a photostat shopkeeper at Rohtak Road, Nangloi, he scanned the documents in his computer and deleted the entry of the individuals' name, parentage and caste.

Thereafter, he used to take print of the certificates on a special paper. To give the paper an older look, he used to take help of tea leaves.

A solution by dipping the tea leaves in water was prepared and was applied on the certificates and dried in normal condition. Thereafter, Vijay used to fill name, parentage and caste of the persons, who usually came in their contact for assisting them in issue of caste certificate, the police said.

New Delhi, August 4
A gang allegedly involved in duping people by promising jobs for them in foreign countries such as Korea, Germany and Malaysia was busted today.

The gang, allegedly operated by retired Army Colonel David Daniel, used to lure people, especially youngsters, in the name of sending them abroad for handsome employment opportunities. The Colonel was arrested yesterday.

The matter came to notice after Shaji Narayan of Kingsway Camp registered a compliant on May 23 this year. An FIR in this regard was registered at the Civil Lines police statio.

In 2005, Colonel Daniel had published an advertisement in some leading newspapers, inviting overseas job aspirants. In the advertisement, he had given a mobile number for contact.

Falling prey to the trap, Narayan had contacted on the number. Subsequently, as directed by the accused, in October 2005, he sent his bio-data to Col David in Almorah.

In March next year, Narayan was asked to appear for an interview in Delhi, during which the accused took Rs 50,000 as advance from him. According to Narayan, 25 other people were also interviewed. Thereafter, they were asked to wait for their visas.

Further, in July 2006, on the pretext of preparing some labour contracts, the accused duped Narayan and the other candidates of Rs 2 lakh each. The money was collected at a hotel at Karol Bagh, according to deputy commissioner of police (north) Sindhu Pillai.

The police has seized a mobile phone and some filled/unfilled labour contract forms from the accused.

New Delhi, August 4
The Delhi police has taken a sigh of relief after arresting the leader of Kana-Nizam burglars gang as for the past three years he has been operating in various areas of the capital and was going scot-free.

Special staff of the north Delhi police yesterday received information that a person from West Bengal involved in several theft cases was taking shelter somewhere in the area of Bhalswa and was probably going to Jahangirpuri to meet his associates.

The police laid a trap at Bhalswa and apprehended him. During sustained interrogation, he revealed his identity as Haffizuddin, alias Happy Kana, leader of Kana-Nizam gang. Haffizuddin said that for the past about three years he regularly shifted his hideout in different parts of Delhi to avoid his arrest because his some associates have been arrested. Neither he nor his associates ever kept any mobile phone to evade the arrest.

In addition to several burglary incidents, he said that on February 26, he, along with his associates, broke open the lock of a flat in Sector 15, Rohini. They had taken away the entire valuable house holds. After committing the burglary, they set the house on fire to destroy the evidences. This incident had created a fear among the residents of the area and despite the best effort by the police no fruitful result was served to solve this incident.

He said that he invested more than Rs 40 lakh of his earnings from theft cases in construction of a house in West Bengal.

Twelve cases of burglary have been worked with his arrest. Besides, the accused committed to his involvement in various other theft cases along with his associates.

New Delhi, August 4
During a ceremony held to commemorate the country's first Bone & Joint Day at the Indian Spinal Injuries Centre here today, the Indian Orthopaedic Association (IOA) under its unique initiative, "Lets Pledge to Give", asked nearly 9,000 surgeons registered with it to perform at least one free surgery this year.

With an aim to benefit the poor, the initiative, which involves free services like surgies, medicines, hospital stay and fees, nearly 3,500 surgeries have been performed by members of the IOA till date.

While the target is to perform 10,000 free surgeries this year, the basic idea is to improve the public awareness regarding, road safety measures, common orthopaedic illnesses like osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, back pain, etc. And for this, free camps and awareness programmes are being conducted throughout the country, members of the IOA said.

One death due to road accidents is reported in the country every five minutes. Further, with an ageing population, more than two million fresh cases with severe debilitating arthritis or low back pain are added every year, experts say.

"Road traffic accidents are also on the rise in India and improper management and resultant disability place a huge strain on the economic and social fabric of the family and the society at large. A huge number of accidents can be prevented by public awareness and education programmes which can be focused around the Orthopaedic Day," said IOA president Dr S Rajasekaran.

According to the World Health Organisation, musculoskeletal diseases are the major causes of disability in the world, more so in developing countries like India where there is a huge load of neglected sequelae, a chronic condition resulting from bone and joint infections and developmental dysplasia.

As a part of the theme - knowledge is power, skill is strength, programme, almost 350 orthopaedic surgeons have been provided short and long-term training to enable them to acquire special hands on bone model during workshops in centres of excellence in specialist areas of spine surgery, arthroscopy, pediatric orthopaedics, etc., he said.

Apart from this, the IOA is planning to organise 250 public education programmes and for this, it has tied up with numerous social service organisations and industrial partners to bring public awareness and further education on three important issues - road traffic accidents and building safety on the roads; prevention and treatment of arthritis; prevention and treatment of osteoporosis.