Hyderabad police busts fake Covid-19 vaccine certificate racket, arrests 4
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The Hyderabad police busted a racket and arrested four who were involved in issuing fake Covid-19 vaccine certificates.
Reportedly, for the third time in a week, the Hyderabad police have busted a fake Covid-19 certificate racket, arresting four culprits. Among the 4 arrestees, a Covid-19 data entry operator was also nabbed.
The police are looking for a wider network, scrutinizing the involvement of primary health staff and data entry operators. Two more rackets were busted by the police last week which were involved in issuing fake negative RT-PCR reports without subjecting people to tests and backdated fully vaccinated certificates.
As per the report by the Times Now, six people, including the diagnostic centre owner, a primary health care centre staff, travel agents among others were arrested for issuing fake certificates.
According to the report, during the investigation, the police managed to seize several cell phones, Aadhaar cards and other forged documents from them.
G. Biksham Reddy, ACP Charminar was quoted as saying by the Times of India (TOI), "Mohd Saif, was working as a data entry operator at a Covid vaccination Centre at Saroonagar, along with his friends hatched a plan and trapped those who wanted to acquire vaccination certificate without taking the jab, as per the Times of India report.
The Hyderabad police disclosed that eight such people who procured these certificates have been identified.
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