Dhaka: A Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) mobile court punished three fake dentists in capital’s Karwan Bazar and Tejturi Bazar on Thursday.

According to RAB 2 officials, a team of the elite force, led by its deputy director Major Syed Salahuddin Mahmud and Additional SP Md Mizanur Rahman, along with executive magistrate Mohammad Anisur Rahman first conducted a drive at Al Medina Dental Care and Dhaka Dental Care of Karwan Bazar Supermarket at about 8:00pm.

During the drive, they detained Akhtar Hossain, owner of Al Medina Dental Care, and Maulana GM Wahid, dentist of Dhaka Dental Care, on charge of giving treatment to the patients without valid licences, reports UNB.

During interrogation, Akhtar revealed that he was detained by a mobile court on 4 September 2014 and sentenced to one year’s simple imprisonment on the same charge.

He, however, again started the practice as a dentist soon after his release from jail on bail.

Later, the mobile court sentenced him to two years’ simple jail and fined him Tk 1 lakh, in default, to suffer three months more in jail.

During the raid on Dhaka Dental Care, the crime-buster team detained Maulana GM Wahid. The mobile court fined him Tk 1 lakh, in default, to serve three more months in jail.

In another drive, the RAB team detained Abdul Awal, 24, a fake dentist of Shamim Drugs at East Tejturipara.

Shamim confessed that he had no legal licence to provide treatment for patients. He used to work at a dentist’s chamber 2-3 years back.

Later, the mobile court jailed him for one year and fined him Tk 1 lakh, in default, to remain in jail for three months more.