Ward Boy Broke Clients' Fingers To Help Them Frame Enemies, Arrested: Mumbai Police

Police have arrested four persons including a ward boy of a civic hospital in Mumbai who used his domain knowledge to temporarily hurt his 'clients' to help them secure medical documents so that they can lodge FIRs to implicate their enemies, an official said on Monday.

The main accused, Vasu Thombre, used a bizarre modus operandi wherein he would administer a poison-filled injection to one of the fingers of his client before breaking it. He would then take the client to hospital doctors to get medical documents mentioning the finger injury.

"The 'injured' person would then approach the police and lodge an FIR against those with whom he wanted to settle scores by claiming that he was assaulted," the official added.

Three other accused mainly acted on the field identifying the potential customers for Thombre. They used to charge Rs 40,000 to Rs 50,000 per case, he said, adding that the other members of the gang are identified as Babu Nisar Sayyed, Samir Ishtiyak Hussain and Abdul Hameed Khan.

"The ward boy was exposed when a doctor at the civic-run Shatabdi Hospital became suspicious when one Faizan Ahmed Khan approached him for the treatment of a broken finger," the official added.

Khan was later taken to a police station where he spilled the beans. He told police that he wanted to frame three people over some issue with the residents of his housing society.

Police suspect that the gang has been involved in the crime for the past many months. They were arrested on Sunday under sections 328 (causing hurt by means of poison) and 120-b (conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

A court remanded them to police custody till February 1.

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