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Police have arrested two doctors who run a hospital in Talegaon Dabhade for allegedly submitting fake insurance claims for at least 14 patients and siphoning Rs 22 lakh from an insurance provider. The fraud came to light after an internal probe by the insurance company found that identical medical test results including X-ray images had been submitted for multiple patients.
A First Information Report in the case was registered at Talegaon Dabhade police station on Monday by Dr Sandeep Gaikwad who is working as the Senior Manager with the insurance provider Tata AIG. Senior Inspector Kanhaiyya Thorat, in-charge of the Talegaon Dabhade police station said, “We have arrested Dr Sandeep Wankhede and Dr Vishal Kukde who ran a hospital named Shree Multispeciality hospital in Talegaon Dabhade. They will be produced before a court on Wednesday where we will seek their police custody.”
Senior Inspector Thorat added, “Internal probe by the insurance provider company revealed that identical test results including X-ray images were submitted along with the claims of the patients. As of now we have information about 14 fake claims of the patients which the suspect doctors had submitted to the insurance provider from March earlier this year. They have submitted forged documents to the company defrauding it of Rs 22 lakh.”
Officials said that they will investigate whether any more fake claims were submitted by the suspect doctors. The offence at Talegaon Dabhade police station under Pimpri Chinchwad police has been registered under Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita sections 316(2) Criminal breach of trust, 318(4) Cheating, dishonestly inducing alteration or destruction of a valuable security), 336 (Forgery), 337 (Forgery of court or public register record), 340(2) (Using forged document or electronic record as genuine), 344 (Falsification of accounts.)
