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Quack's bid for DMC clearance

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI JULY 4. In a hurry to practise allopathy in Delhi, Navel Kishore Joshi, claiming to be a registered doctor from Patna, applied to the Delhi Medical Council hoping to get a clearance for the same. The only hitch was that officials at the DMC did not think that Joshi had his papers in order. A compartment in Class XII and an unsigned registration letter from Patna raised doubts about Joshi's credibility.

The Delhi Medical Council, a statutory body regulating allopathy doctors in the Capital, asked the Bihar Council of Medical Registration to verify Joshi's credentials and it was revealed that he had not registered with them and that all the papers he had produced to this effect were fake.

According to the Secretary of the Delhi Medical Council, S.K. Khattri, "Navel Kishore Joshi applied for registration with DMC on June 24, 2003, claiming to possess MBBS, MD (Medicine) from Patna University and he also stated that he was registered with the Bihar Council of Medical Registration. He wanted to practice in Delhi for which he needed clearance and had approached the DMC.''

The documents raised a strong suspicion as regards the credibility of Joshi who DMC officials say presented himself as a doctor employed with the Director-General of Home Guards and Civil Defence, Delhi. An FIR has been lodged by the DMC at the I.P. Estate police station here against Joshi, who has since been arrested.

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