AGNELO PEREIRA
MAPUSA
Five days after a Mapusa court denied bail to an alleged bogus doctor who ran a flourishing consultancy in Mapusa, police has so far failed to lay their hands on the accused, Hanumantray Biradar, claiming that he is on the run.
According to Mapusa Police who visited the home of the accused soon after his bail application was dismissed, Biradar was not found at his Porvorim residence.
“We have spoken to his wife who says Biradar left home on the day his bail was rejected and has still not returned home. She does not know his whereabouts,” PSI Kiran Naik told The Goan.
Senior police officers also agreed that Biradar was absconding and not traceable, but had hopes that he would be intercepted soon.
Police claim that the prosecution has a very strong case and even if the accused approaches the High Court, it will be difficult for him to get bail. “It won’t be long before he is arrested and put behind bars,” a police officer informed.
Acting on a complaint of Goa Medical Council (GMC) Registrar, Govind Nasnodkar, Mapusa Police on March 12, 2018 booked the accused, Hanumantray Biradar for forgery and cheating for allegedly practicing as an allopathic doctor in a clinic in Angod, Mapusa with a fabricated Medical Council of India (MCI) registration certificate.
Earlier in 2003, Mapusa Police had booked Biradar for cheating on a complaint filed by the Directorate of Food and Drugs Administration.
Surprisingly, despite being booked in 2003, the accused failed to register himself with Goa Medical Council questioning the credentials of the medical certificates in his possession.
Police investigations revealed that Biradar was working as an X-Ray technician at ‘Bhamini Kedar Hospital’ in Tivim in 1990-1992 even though he never attended any medical college.
Further, the accused stored various medicines in his clinic without having valid authority to prescribe them.
Police also found that in the 2003 case, the name of the accused was written as Hemantray Biradar and the same name reflected in his motor vehicle registration certificate.
However, in the medical certificates, the name appears as Hanumantraya Biradar, making the police conclude that the name of the accused needed to be verified.
During the bail hearing, police said that the accused was required not only for procuring medical certificates but also to unearth the fact as to how he prepared the forged All India Medical Council certificate and who else is involved in preparing such false and fake certificates.
Interestingly, the accused managed to produce a letter dated Feb 3, 2018 from the Controller of Examinations, Annamalai University stating that Hanumantraya Biradar had passed the Bachelor of Medicine of Surgery degree examination held in April, 1989 and completed internship of one year. Police verification found that the letter was also fake after Annamalai University wrote back stating that the “university does not issue any such letter.”
Dismissing the anticipatory bail of the accused, Additional Sessions Judge, Vijaya Pol had described the offences as heinous and ordered his custodial interrogation.
