Swapna Patker, a Marathi film producer, has been arrested on charges of cheating and forgery for allegedly obtaining a fake PhD degree in clinical psychology and then, using it to get a job in a hospital, a police official told TOI. Patker has been arrested following an FIR which was registered against her at Mumbai's Bandra police station on the 26th of May. She has been arrested under IPC sections 419 (cheating by personation), 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery) and 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating).
The report also states that the producer had been practising as a clinical psychologist at a prominent Bandra hospital since 2016. A 51-year-old social worker supposedly released a sealed envelope with a set of documents pertaining to Patker's PHd degree from an anonymous source and the producer was arrested once an FIR was filed. The PhD certificate which Patker claims to have obtained from a university in Kanpur was fake. Patker is best known for producing Balkadu in 2015 which is based on the philosophical leanings of Shiv Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray.
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