City cops bust Ayurvedic medicine racket duping patients

Nagpur | Saturday | 14th July, 2018

Summary:

After contacting him from Mayo hospital, they had coerced him to buy medicines from a particular shop from Ganeshpeth. The patient, realizing he had been duped, had approached Hudkeshwar police to lodge a complaint.It has been learnt that the complainant in the present case, Tembhurne, after learning about the earlier complaint, approached Tehsil cops. Nagpur: An ‘ayurvedic’ practitioner, identified as Raju Thakur, alias Raju Vaid, has been booked in a second offence by Tehsil police on Thursday following a complaint from one Charulesh Tembhurne (42). Initially, Tembhurne was asked to make a purchase of Rs5,000 and then he started pressurizing the complainant to make more purchases until he realized he had been being duped and approached Tehsil police. He claimed that Raju’s agent Shinde had approached him outside the superspecialty hospital where the complainant had gone for his sister’s treatment, who has been suffering from asthma.Following Shinde’s advise, Tembhurne had approached Raju who told him to purchase medicines from Balaji Ayurvedic medicine shop..