PUNE: The city police on Sunday registered a case of cheating against a man for posing as a doctor and calling the father of newborn twins, admitted to Sassoon General Hospital, on January 29 to get the latter transfer Rs 26,700 for buying costly injections for his sons.
The 37-year-old victim, a resident of Kharadi and employed with an engineering workshop, lodged a complaint with the Samarth police on Sunday.
This is the second case within three days of a man duping relatives of hospitalized persons posing as a doctor.
The Kharadi resident stated in his complaint that he had received a call from an unknown number. The caller claimed that he was a doctor treating his twin sons — premature babies suffering from lung ailment — and that he had to administer injections to the babies urgently.
The complainant stated that the “doctor” told him over the phone that the injections were not available at the hospital’s pharmacy. The impostor, according to the complaint, claimed that he knew a pharmacist who was ready to supply them at a good discount.
The caller asked the victim to transfer the money on his UPI application, the complaint stated. The victim, believing in the impostor, transferred the money, police said.
When the victim visited the hospital later and enquired with the hospital staffers, he realised that the unknown caller had cheated him, the police said.
On Saturday, a security guard lodged a similar complaint with the Bund Garden police stating that a caller had cheated him of Rs20,000 after posing as a “doctor”. In the same FIR, he stated that the caller also tried to cheat one of his colleagues accompanying him.