The Mumbai police are on the lookout for a fake doctor and his gang, who doled out multiple ‘ayurvedic treatments’ and performed ‘surgeries’ on numerous senior citizens. The quack, who sometimes goes by Zaffar Merchant, was booked after an Andheri woman whose mother was targeted by the conman in 2021 recently approached the Oshiwara police with photographs of him. 

The Andheri woman, 61, had read about the plight of a woman from Kurla whose mother was similarly targeted and had a hunch that the accused was the same person whom she had encountered three years ago.