The Koraput police have arrested Durgadatta Sasani, a doctor serving at the MKCG Medical College Hospital in Brahmapur for allegedly submitting a fake caste certificate to avail medical course studies and his subsequent job.
As per police sources, the doctor’s younger brother Ambika Prasad Sasani had lodged a complaint against him at the Semiliguda police station in Koraput district alleging that Durgadatta, a resident of Samabaya Colony in Semiliguda, had furnished fake caste certificate despite being a Brahmin.
The accused obtained the certificate fraudulently and got benefit in MBBS and PG admissions in MKCG Medical College by submitting the same. Furthermore, he used a different name for availing higher education, the complainant alleged.
As Ambika Prasad disclosed the offence committed by his brother Durgadatta, the latter threatened the former to kill him with poison injection, the complainant added.
On the basis of the complaint, police registered a case against the doctor under Sections 468, 471, 420 and 506 of the IPC. He was arrested and produced before a local court.