Published Mar 27, 2026 | 7:00 AM ⚊ Updated Mar 27, 2026 | 7:00 AM
The accused, Gupta Ramesh Kumar, and his clinic.
Synopsis: A man allegedly forged BDS certificates and registered a dental clinic at Neredmet in Hyderabad. However, the odd working hours of his clinic aroused suspicion and led to his arrest. The man reportedly told the police that he earned the dentistry experience by watching his wife, a qualified dentist.
A Class-10 dropout successfully ran a dental clinic at Neredmet in Hyderabad for about 15 years, until the law caught up with him on Tuesday, 24 March.
The accused, Gupta Ramesh Kumar, did not treat patients without ‘experience’. His ‘experience’, however, was watching his wife, a qualified dentist, performing the medical procedures, police said on Thursday, 26 March.
Confident that he could also be a dentist like his wife with a BDS degree, Kumar allegedly forged a BDS certificate and registered a clinic, Anjalika Dental, at Satya Aditya Towers, Old Neredmet, near Three Temples. Soon, he established himself as a dental practitioner.
However, the clinic’s odd working hours recently raised suspicion. Kumar offered treatments between 10 pm and early morning, avoiding the scrutiny that a practice operating during the day might attract.
“He saw the patients regularly,” a police officer told South First. “But he conducted treatments only during odd hours.”
Kumar treated patients for nearly two decades before the police extracted him from his practice and put him in a cell.
G. Chandra Shekar, Sub-Inspector at Neredmet Police Station, said he received information that a clinic was operating without departmental authorisation around 1.00 pm on 24 March.
The Malkajgiri Special Operations Team (SOT), accompanied by police personnel, descended on the clinic around 2:00 pm. On confirming that Kumar had no recognised BDS qualification, they arrested him and seized documents believed to be forged.
“During inspection, it was revealed that the above person does not possess any recognised BDS qualification, yet he advertised himself as a doctor, thereby endangering public health and cheating innocent patients,” Chandra Shekar said.
Investigators noted that Kumar’s wife was holding a valid BDS certificate. She qualified as a dentist. Kumar, however, did not attend dental school but learned the techniques by watching her work, and then ran a clinic of his own for two decades, police said.
Police did not identify Kumar’s wife nor disclose if she was facing any charges.
Kumar has his roots in Uttar Pradesh. His father lives in the Adilabad district, where Kumar grew up. He had worked at a paper factory in Kagaznagar before shifting to Hyderabad.
Police have registered a case under Crime Number 275/2026, invoking Section 318(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for cheating and Section 22 read with Section 20(ii) of the Telangana Medical Practice Regulation (TMPR) Act.
“We are now investigating how he managed to operate undetected for so long and whether others are involved in similar fraudulent practices,” police said.
Officers urged citizens to verify the credentials of medical practitioners before seeking treatment.
(Edited by Majnu Babu).
