KATHMANDU: It has been revealed that the man arrested on the charge of spreading rumors that body parts of COVID-19 dead people are pirated tricked many patients.
Police on Monday had arrested Subas Subba Limbu, a naturopathist, for spreading rumors that the hospital rackets the kidney, eyes and lever of the people who die of coronavirus and the medics involved.
It has been revealed that Limbu, who operates Anteem Bikalpa Treatment and Research Center, had sold medicine worth Rs 30,000 claiming to treat cancer and HIV/AIDS.
Limbu used to prescribe Ayurvedic medicine called ‘Miracle’ to all the patients saying that it will cure HIV/AIDS by 80 percent and cancer by 20 percent.
Police claimed that he used to sell the medicines for Rs 50,000 before the lockdown and at Rs 30,000 after the lockdown.
A police team deployed from the Metropolitan Crime Division caught Limbu from Dholahiti, Lalitpur, on Monday to spread rumors against the medics and hospitals.
“There is no coronavirus in Nepal. If not, why doesn’t it affect the people living in the streets?’ Limbu had said in his YouTube interview viewed by 92,000 people. “There are beggars in the government, COVID-19 has become an excuse for executing corrupt activities,” he had claimed.
He has even claimed that he has found the vaccine against the coronavirus pandemic.
SSP Deepak Thapa of the Metropolitan Police Crime Division informed that Limbu has been arrested for spreading rumors and inducing people against health workers and hospitals’ service.
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