Fake COVID-19 vaccination camps: Kolkata Police includes attempt-to-murder charge against main accused

The main accused Debanjan Deb and his accomplices have also been charged with criminal conspiracy, forgery and cheating.

Kolkata: Kolkata Police on Saturday included the charge of an attempt to murder along with other sections of the IPC against a man who allegedly impersonated as an IAS officer and organised COVID-19 vaccination camps together with three of his associates, officials said. Debanjan Deb, 28, and his accomplices have also been charged with criminal conspiracy, forgery and cheating. He was arrested on Wednesday for masquerading as a joint commissioner of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and operating an immunisation camp in the Kasba area, where actor and Trinamool Congress MP Mimi Chakraborty had also got her jab.