A MBA graduate who posed as a vigilance officer to extort money from piles treatment specialists in ayurvedic medicine was arrested by Hyderabad Police Commissioner’s Task Force (North Zone). The accused Smith Sethi (39), unemployed, is a native of Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
He got accustomed to a lavish life, faced financial issues and planned to earn money by posing as a vigilance officer. He used to go through phone numbers, addresses of clinics treating piles cases through Ayurveda and visited them posing as a vigilance officer showing a fake ID card.
The accused spoke in English, Bengali, and Hindi to establish his act and asked for degree certificates, license, and other documents needed to run a clinic. If any of the specialists failed to produce the documents or certificates, he used to threaten them with a report against the clinic and to send them to jail.
If anyone pleaded with him not to file a report or a case, the accused extorted huge amounts. He cheated two clinicians using this modus operandi, and used this trick earlier to cheat doctors in Odisha, West Bengal and other States.
