A fake doctor was arrested yesterday at Mirpur in the capital and awarded two years' imprisonment by a mobile court.
The doctor impersonator, Golam Kibria, 45, from Kushtia, was also fined Tk 3 lakh by the mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion-4. He will have to serve three more months if he fails to pay the fine.
After working for a year at a medicine shop in Jessore, an HSC-passed Kibria started practising as a doctor there in 1996, said Rab's Executive Magistrate AHM Anwar Pasha.
In 2003, he went to India and bought fake MBBS and MD certificates from Kolkata for Tk 12,000.
With the certificates, he opened a chamber in Dhaka and started working as a physician. In 2008, he bought a diagnostic centre, PC Lab, at Mirpur-10.
Golam Kibria even made fake mark sheets, identity cards and other academic documents for running the business. In his visiting cards and leaflets, he gives his identity as Dr G Kibria, MBBS, MD, doctor of medicine (AMC) India, Magistrate Pasha added.
The Rab team found that Kibria's MD certificate was issued in January 2003, but as per his passport, he visited India in February that year. His other documents were also found to be fake.
The same court in 2009 busted Kibria's diagnostic centre and fined him. At that time when Kibria vowed not to deceive patients again, the mobile court set him free, said Pasha who was among the court members then.
"We caught him in his chamber. But we couldn't award him jail term as mobile courts were not authorised to do so," said Pasha.
According to Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council Act, no one can see patients without an MBBS degree.
Source : The Daily Star
