UNB, Joypurhat :
A mobile court on Monday sentenced a fake doctor to one year’s imprisonment and fined him Tk50,000 at Nishchinta Bazar in Kalai upazila on Monday for giving treatmentwithout having a certificate.
The convict was identified as Golam Mostafa, 44, son of Akam Uddin, a resident of Uttar Pakuria village of the upazila.
Mostafa ran a drugstore named ‘Sulatana Pharmacy’ in Nishchinta Bazar area and had been treating patients using fake identity of a doctor.
He also often conducted surgical operations, endangering patients’ conditions.
On secret information, a team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-5, led by camp commander Major Md Hasan Arafat, conducted a drive in the area and arrested Mostafa.
Later Mostafa was produced before a mobile court, led by executive magistrate Md Shahidul Haque, which handed down the jail term to Mostafa along with the fine, in default of which he will have to serve three more months’ jail.
