A gang of thugs has been brazenly running a racket out of Mumbai’s top cancer hospitals, preying on the emotionally vulnerable families of the patients, luring them with a miracle cure—a “special” ayurvedic concoction. The cancer will never recur, they promise their vulnerable prey, mostly the rich, fleecing them of lakhs in the process. mid-day reporters went undercover and found out how the crooks, led by their ringleader, operate in cahoots with some ayurvedic dispensaries in the city.

The gang members sneak inside the hospitals, carrying random medical files and X-ray reports and keep an eye on patients arriving in high-end cars. They somehow retrieve the medical files of such patients and then approach their relatives, convincing them to switch over to ayurvedic treatment instead of wasting lakhs of rupees on oncologists.