India film producer Swapna Patkar was arrested on cheating and forgery charges for allegedly obtaining a fake PhD degree in clinical physiology and using it to get a job in a hospital. Patkar is best known for producing Marathi film “Balkadu”, a biopic of Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray, which was released in 2015. She had been practicing as a clinical psychologist at a prominent hospital located in Bandra (West) since 2016.
