Kafeel, brother held in 9-year-old fraud case

GORAKHPUR/BAHRAICH :Suspended BRD Medical College paediatrician Dr Kafeel Khan and his brother Adeel Khan were arrested in Gorakhpur on Sunday in connection with a nineyear-old fraud case in which he (Kafeel) had allegedly used the documents of another person to open a fake bank account and conduct transactions through it while studying medicine at Manipal University in 2009, police said. Dr Kafeel’s brother Adeel Khan is a co-accused in the case.

Dr Kafeel Khan is also one of the nine accused in a case relating to death of children in Gorakhpur in August last year allegedly due to disruption in oxygen supply following non-payment of bills. He is currently out on bail in that case. His arrest comes hours after he was released in Bahraich on Saturday night after having been taken into custody on Saturday afternoon for allegedly disturbing services at the Bahraich district hospital.

A team led by superintendent of police, Gorakhpur City, and Cantonment circle officer arrested Dr Kafeel Khan and his brother on the direction of Gorakhpur senior superintendent of police Shalabh Mathur.

The action was taken soon after a crime branch team took him to Gorakhpur from Bahraich , where was detained on charges of creating a ruckus in district hospital and was booked under Section 151(unlawful assembly and disruption of peace ) before being released later on bail.

Rai said a case under sections 419 (punishment for cheating), 420 (fraud), 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating), 471 (using a fake document) and 120 B (criminal conspiracy) was lodged against Kafeel in 2009 at Gorakhpur’s Rajghat police station by one Muzaffar Alam, resident of the city.

“He was wanted in the fraud case and today (he) was arrested with his brother, who is a co-accused,” said the CO.

Earlier on Saturday, Dr Kafeel Khan had reached Bahraich district hospital on Saturday and started questioning the patients admitted there and argued with the doctors and medical staff after which chief medical superintendent Dr DK Singh called the police. His brother Adeel Ahmad Khan said Dr Kafeel had come to Bahraich after he came to know that over six dozen children died of mysterious fever in the past 50 days. According to Dr Kafeel the children died of encephalitis, Adeel said. Dr Kafeel was going to address media when he was taken into custody, he claimed.