According to police sources, during his stint with the ayurvedic doctor, Dyavanpelli had picked up a few basics of medicine. He then went ahead and set up his own clinic in a small room and started using the letterheads of a doctor who was practicing there before him, the police said. He also began prescribing allopathic medicines to his patients and soon had a fair number of patients visiting him.

However, a medical officer of the municipal corporation came to know about his illegal practice and asked him to shut his clinic. Dyavanpelli, however, did not heed the medical officer's warning and continued with his practice. A few days back this medical officer approached Kalchowkie police station filed acomplaint. The case was handed over to Inspector Rolfie Pereira, who is attached to the special squad of deputy police commissioner (Zone III).

Pereira raided the clinic today and confronted Dyavanapelli. Though the latter initially insisted that he was qualified to practice medicine, he could not, however, explain the employment certificate (given to him by the ayurvedic doctor he had worked for) that he had put up on the walls of his clinic passing it off as his MBBS degree. Later, under sustained interrogation, Dyavanpelli confessed he was not registered with the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC).

The police have arrested him under sections 33 and 36 of the Maharashtra Medical Council Act, which pertains to practicing without a valid degree and without being registered with the MMC, Pereira said. The police also found all kinds of medicine, saline bottles, injections, disposable syringes and ointments in the clinic, which have been seized.

Further investigations are being made to find out if anypatient had suffered any complication after being treated by Dyavanpelli.