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NAVI MUMBAI: The first instance of a fraudulent Covid-19 vaccination drive has emerged in Navi Mumbai where 352 employees of a fan manufacturing company were given the shots. This is the 12th such case in Mumbai Metropolitan Region. Turbhe MIDC police lodged an FIR against Dr Manish Tripathi and his student Karim Ali both key accused in most other FIRs and an unidentified individual. The accused had organized a “vaccination drive” for Atomberg Technologies Pvt Ltd, a fan manufacturer located at Shirawane MIDC, Nerul, in April and charged it Rs 4.3 lakh.
Dr Tripathi is the director of KCEP Group, a training and placement institute that functioned out of Shivam Hospital in Charkop, Kandivli.