Rajkot: In a crackdown on fake doctors, Rajkot Rural police arrested 17 quacks in a drive conducted across 11 police station jurisdictions in the district.The accused were allegedly practising in industrial areas, towns and villages, with the durations of their illegal practices ranging from four months to 25 years, according to preliminary police inquiries.Of the 17 accused, three studied up to Class 10, 11 studied up to Classes 11 or 12, and three were graduates. Police said some had previously worked at medical stores, while others had worked as assistants to doctors or as nurses. These jobs gave them some knowledge of medicines used to treat different conditions.Seventeen complaints were registered against them under Section 30 of the Medical Practitioners Act.In the Jetpur Taluka police station jurisdiction, Janak Vanpariya and Rafiq Garana were arrested for allegedly practising in Vavdi and Champarajpur villages. While Vanpariya had allegedly been practising for five years, Garana had allegedly been doing so for 25 years.In Paddhari, Hariprasad Jani was allegedly practising for 20 years.Police seized medicines, injections, syringes, needles and other medical equipment from their clinics. The operation also raised questions about how the accused allegedly continued practising for years without the requisite qualifications and licences.Rajkot Rural DSP Vijay Singh Gurjar told the media that the drive was conducted against individuals practising medicine without valid degrees.In the Patanvav police station jurisdiction, Alpesh Solanki and Savan Domadiya were arrested for practising in Kalana and Bhader villages for two years and four months, respectively.In the Jasdan police station jurisdiction, Santosh Shankarram, Chandu Solanki and Arvind Desai were allegedly practising in Kalasar, Ambardi and Lilapur villages for two, one and five years respectively.In the Shapar-Veraval police station jurisdiction, Amarkumar Das and Muldas Nimavat were allegedly practising in the industrial area for three and seven years, respectively. In the Kotda Sangani area, Bhavesh Kothiya was allegedly running Mahadev Clinic in Rajpara village and had been practising for four years.Similarly, Priyanshu Medpara was allegedly practising at Tulsi Clinic in Khirsara village under the Metoda GIDC police station jurisdiction for a year.In the Gondal Taluka police station jurisdiction, Irshad Nakani was practising at Daya village for two years. In Jetpur City area, Manish alias Nathni Paswan and Dhruv Thakor had been practising for four years each.Hajibashir Neviwal was arrested in the Jetpur Udyognagar police station jurisdiction for practising for seven months, while Hiren Ramani was running Ramani Clinic in Solavdar village under the Jamkandorna police station jurisdiction for two years.Preliminary investigations revealed that none of the accused had a valid licence or certificate required to practise medicine.
