Police file charges against 8 in Kolkata fake vaccine racket

Nearly two months after a fake vaccination racket rocked Kolkata and its suburbs, the city police on Thursday filed a chargesheet against eight accused, including Debanjan Deb who posed as an IAS offi

Nearly two months after a fake vaccination racket rocked Kolkata and its suburbs, the city police on Thursday filed a chargesheet against eight accused, including Debanjan Deb who posed as an IAS officer. The police had charged them under 14 Sections, including Section 307 (attempt to murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and 51(b) of the Disaster Management Act, 2005. The seven other accused named in the chargesheet include Mr. Deb’s employees and associates. The chargesheet, which runs over 1,000 pages and refers to 130 witnesses, was filed before the additional chief judicial magistrate of the Alipore court on Thursday.