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Four sacked in covid swab scam
Four sacked in covid swab scam
ByBellie ThomasBellie Thomas / Updated: May 13, 2021, 06:00 IST
Four swab collectors from the
government hospital in Yelahanka have been sacked and booked for cheating after they were caught collecting swab samples from
private laboratories and sending them for
testing to the
Command Hospital under the government quota.
The accused have been identified as 37-year-old Padmanabh KB, Satish, in his twenties, 33-year-old Puneeth Kumar, and 51-year-old Bavireddy among a few others suspected by the
police. The four were arrested and produced before a magistrate and remanded in judicial custody at the
They were sending samples from a private lab illegally to a government facility
The police booked three swab collectors from a government hospital in Yelahanka for collecting samples from private labs and sending them for testing to government facilities to make money.
The fraud came to light when the administrative officer Dr. Chethan Kumar noticed that the number of COVID-19 test reports had increased drastically in the past few days and conducted a probe following which the accused confessed.
Based on his complaint, the Yelahanka police registered a cheating complaint against Padmanabha K.B., Satisha and Puneeth Kumar, who are swab collectors at Yelahanka government hospital. They also booked Bhavi Reddy, the owner of Standard Diagnostic Centre, for cheating.