Marathi
film
producer
Swapna
Patker
was
arrested
on
June
8,
2021,
for
allegedly
obtaining
a
fake
PhD
degree
in
clinical
psychology.
A
police
official
informed
PTI
that
she
used
to
work
as
a
consultant
in
a
hospital
and
cheat
people.
The
police
officer
further
stated
that
an
FIR
was
registered
against
her
at
the
Bandra
Police
Station
on
May
26.
On
that
basis,
she
was
arrested
under
IPC
Section
419
(Cheating
by
personation),
420
(cheating),
467
(forgery)
and
468
(forgery
for
purpose
of
cheating).
He
added
that
Swapna
Patker
had
been
practising
as
a
clinical
psychologist
at
a
hospital
in
Bandra
(west)
since
2016.
Well,
the
entire
matter
was
revealed
after
a
51-year-old
social
worker,
Gurdeep
Kaur
Singh
filed
a
police
complaint
against
Swapna
Patker.
The
official
told
the
news
agency,
"Singh
received
a
set
of
documents
in
a
sealed
envelope
in
April
related
to
the
latter's
PhD
degree
from
an
anonymous
source.
According
to
the
documents,
the
PhD
certificate
of
Patker,
purportedly
issued
by
the
Chhatrapati
Shahuji
Maharaj
University,
Kanpur,
in
2009
was
actually
fake."
Notably,
with
the
fake
degree,
Swapna
used
to
treat
people
having
mental
health
issues.
Further
investigation
is
still
going
on.
Meanwhile,
39-year-old
Swapna
Patker
is
best
known
for
producing
the
Marathi
film
Balkadu
(2015),
a
biopic
of
Shiv
Sena
founder
Bal
Thackeray.