The police have registered a case against a 55-year-old man for allegedly treating patients by using the degree of a dead doctor, in Thane, a police officer said on Sunday.

The accused, Vinod Rai, had studied only till Std X and had been treating patients at a hospital in Ulhasnagar town for the last two years on the registration of a doctor who had died in 2019, Ulhasnagar police station’s senior inspector Madhukar Kad said.