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Police said that Saroj is likely to have issued several such fake documents since the pandemic struck last year
MUMBAI: A 26-year-old technician from a Mira Road-based laboratory was arrested for allegedly issuing fake Covid-19 negative reports for Rs 1,000 each.
Interestingly, the six negative reports that he issued of decoy patients are currently taking treatment for Covid-19 in hospitals in Mira-Bhayander.
Krishna Saroj, a resident of Lalji Pada in Kandivli(west) worked for the SRL Diagnostics Laboratory in Mira Road. He issued Covid-19 negative certificates based on the Aadhar card copies sent to him on his cellphone. The action was taken by the crime branch Unit-1, Kashimira of the Mira Bhayander Vasai Virar (MBVV) commissionerate, following a tip-off.
Mira Bhayandar: Lab techie held for doling out Covid negative reports sans test
The accused lab technician in police custody
Two days after the crime branch (unit 1) of the Mira Bhayandar-Vasai Virar (MBVV) police commissionerate busted a racket involving issuance of fake Covid-19 negative reports to bus passengers, a 26-year-old lab technician from Mira Road was held for a similar crime on Wednesday.
A resident of Lalji Pada area in Kandivali (west), the accused identified as-Krishna Ramdular Saroj (26) works as a technician for the Mira Road unit of a well-known chain of laboratories. Acting on a tip-off that the accused was doling out RT-PCR negative reports for Rs. 1,000 without conducting swab tests, the crime branch team led by Police Inspector- Aviraj Kurhade under the supervision of DCP (Crime)- Dr. Mahesh Patil, deputed a decoy who sent copies of Aadhar cards of six people.