The court granted bail to Hemant Gupta, Sanjay Shah and Rajeev Salunkhe, partners of Lifeline Hospital Management Services, the firm which was given the contract to supply medical services to Dahisar and Worli Jumbo Covid centres in 2020.
In pursuance of their plan, they gave instructions to their staff members deployed at the aforesaid Jumbo Covid Centres to create forged attendance records in line with the EOI (expression of interest) issued by the civic body. As per the plan, there was huge under-deployment of medical staff, which had put the lives of the COVID-19 patients at risk, the chargesheet said.
The agency has also claimed that there was under-deployment of around 50 per cent of staff at the Dahisar Jumbo Covid-19 centre, leading to a heavy workload on medical staffers attending to the patients during the pandemic.
Businessman Sujit Patkar played a "key role" in the allotment of a civic contract to his partnership firm for running jumbo COVID-19 centres in Mumbai, the Enforcement Directorate said in its chargesheet.