The city police on Monday busted a begging racket
led by a 41-year-old quack. He had kept six mentally retarded people
including a six-year-old child in a lodge on Amberson Street, Parrys,
under the guise of treating them, but made them beg on the streets as HIV positive people.
Police said K Sundar, the accused who posed as a psychiatrist, had employed two women to take care of the inmates - three men, two women and a six-year-old girl - he kept in the dingy lodge. He told police that he earned up to Rs1.5 lakh a month using the six people. Sundar, Class 10 dropout, picked up mentally retarded people from the streets and send them out to beg.
Police received a call from a citizen who found the activities in the lodge suspicious. Police raided Premier Mansion and Lodge on Amberson Street and arrested Sundar, a native of Kallidaikurichi in Tirunelveli, his two employees M Anandi (32) of KM Garden and S Damayandhi, 38, of Periamed, and lodge manager R B Rafiq who hails from Thrissur in Kerala. They rescued six people from the racket.
Police said Sundar had printed ID cards and visiting cards that identified him as a psychiatrist and a trustee of what he called Angammal Trust. He set up an office in the lodge claiming to run 'Mindpower Academy Counselling Centre'. He has been living in the lodge for the past five months and accommodated the mentally retarted people there with the help of lodge manager Rafiq.
"He booked four rooms claiming to offer treatment. Two rooms he used to accommodate them and two he used as his office and kitchen," said Esplanade inspector Chellappa. Sundar paid Anandi and Damayandi a monthly salary of Rs7,000 to feed and cloth the inmates. Police said Sundar dressed them up in good clothes and gave them placards saying and 'AIDS' and 'Please save us.'
Police said they were also sent to traffic signals in shabby clothes. "He made them stand at signals in Purasaiwalkam, T Nagar, Tambaram and Koyambedu. He picked up two women and three men, who were roaming the city streets, and got a six-year-old girl from her parents, promising treatment. A police officer said they suspect that one of the women in Sundar's custody was a former inmate of the Institute of Mental Health, from where she had escaped.
"He earned anywhere between Rs3,000 and Rs5,000 per day and close to Rs 1.5 lakh a month," a police officer said. He told police that he wanted to start a trust employing doctors to treat mentally ill people, but since he could not succeed in that he took to this. Raja, a housekeeper at the lodge said Sundar would leave every day with the six people at 8am and return by 9pm. "We thought he was taking them out for treatment," he said. Police had earlier conducted a check in the lodge, but were fooled by the fake ID cards and forged medical records.
Source : TOI , 27th August 2013
Police said K Sundar, the accused who posed as a psychiatrist, had employed two women to take care of the inmates - three men, two women and a six-year-old girl - he kept in the dingy lodge. He told police that he earned up to Rs1.5 lakh a month using the six people. Sundar, Class 10 dropout, picked up mentally retarded people from the streets and send them out to beg.
Police received a call from a citizen who found the activities in the lodge suspicious. Police raided Premier Mansion and Lodge on Amberson Street and arrested Sundar, a native of Kallidaikurichi in Tirunelveli, his two employees M Anandi (32) of KM Garden and S Damayandhi, 38, of Periamed, and lodge manager R B Rafiq who hails from Thrissur in Kerala. They rescued six people from the racket.
Police said Sundar had printed ID cards and visiting cards that identified him as a psychiatrist and a trustee of what he called Angammal Trust. He set up an office in the lodge claiming to run 'Mindpower Academy Counselling Centre'. He has been living in the lodge for the past five months and accommodated the mentally retarted people there with the help of lodge manager Rafiq.
"He booked four rooms claiming to offer treatment. Two rooms he used to accommodate them and two he used as his office and kitchen," said Esplanade inspector Chellappa. Sundar paid Anandi and Damayandi a monthly salary of Rs7,000 to feed and cloth the inmates. Police said Sundar dressed them up in good clothes and gave them placards saying and 'AIDS' and 'Please save us.'
Police said they were also sent to traffic signals in shabby clothes. "He made them stand at signals in Purasaiwalkam, T Nagar, Tambaram and Koyambedu. He picked up two women and three men, who were roaming the city streets, and got a six-year-old girl from her parents, promising treatment. A police officer said they suspect that one of the women in Sundar's custody was a former inmate of the Institute of Mental Health, from where she had escaped.
"He earned anywhere between Rs3,000 and Rs5,000 per day and close to Rs 1.5 lakh a month," a police officer said. He told police that he wanted to start a trust employing doctors to treat mentally ill people, but since he could not succeed in that he took to this. Raja, a housekeeper at the lodge said Sundar would leave every day with the six people at 8am and return by 9pm. "We thought he was taking them out for treatment," he said. Police had earlier conducted a check in the lodge, but were fooled by the fake ID cards and forged medical records.
Source : TOI , 27th August 2013
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