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Man held for seeking donations with fake cancer certificate

<p>RPF cops nabbed a 19-year-old fielding a fake cancer patient certificate and seeking donations in a local train; cops investigating whether he is a part of an organised racket</p>

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All of us might have noticed youngsters seeking donations for ‘cancer’ patients in high pitched voices onboard local trains. Suspicious railway police officers caught one such person a month back, who was again called yesterday for further questioning.

The cops observed the 19-year-old youth onboard a Churchgate-bound local train, holding a transparent box containing some currency notes, on which a label read Umeed Foundation, as he asked for donations for a certain cancer patient showing the commuters the ‘medical certificate’ of the ‘patient’, who appeared to be a child in the photo.

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