Tamilnadu health department and police may soon start booking quacks for attempt to murder. The deliberation comes against the backdrop of the arrest of 21 quacks in Tiruvallur over the last one month after a viral fever outbreak in the district. Sources say 19 of them are now free, and some have even resumed practice, though more surreptitiously now.
On Monday , police arrested two more quacks - a BSc graduate, and a class 12 pass out - from the district. In the absence of an anti-quackery law in the state, fake practitioners, at present, can Rs 1,000.get away with a fine of` To prevent this, the legal wing of the state health department is poring over various legislations to ensure quacks are booked under more serious sections of the Indian Penal Code. " As of now, quacks are supposed to be booked for violation of sections of the Indian Medical Council Act, which prohibit non-medical…
