A man impersonating as a doctor from the orthopedic department of the AIIMS has been arrested by the Delhi Police. Confirming the arrest, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Romil Baaniya said they received a complaint from the Deputy Chief Security officer of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) that one of their security guards had caught a man, identified as Ram Kishan Gupta.

Police said that Gupta was found roaming inside the Trauma Centre asking junior resident doctors at the emergency to admit a patient.

A senior police officer said, “Ram Kishan Gupta claimed to be a faculty member of the Orthopaedic Department at the AIIMS  Trauma Centre and was asking the junior residents at the emergency to admit a patient. The guards caught him and handed him over to the police.”

Baaniya said, “We received a complaint from RS Rawat, the deputy chief security officer of AIIMS that the man had come to the Trauma Centre with a patient last on February 5 and once before that.”

“The security had some doubts when he had come last time but before we could act, he left. We procured the CCTV footage which established he was not working at AIIMS. His picture was circulated among guards and staff. On Tuesday, when he came to the emergency, we caught him,” said a senior official from AIIMS hospital.

According to the complaint, the accused claimed that he did his MBBS in 2000 and MS in 2006 from University College of Medical Sciences in Delhi. A stethoscope has also been recovered from his possession.  “He further confessed that he did so to gain favour for the treatment of his relative. Further interrogation is underway to find out if he has actually completed MBBS.  A case under section 419 of the IPC has been registered,” police said.