Vaccination ‘fraud’ in Mumbai: BMC orders probe, seeks report within 48 hours

BMC additional commissioner Suresh Kakani has directed Vishwas Shankarwar, deputy municipal commissioner, to conduct a detailed probe and submit a report within the next 48 hours, an official statement said. 

New Delhi: After the alleged vaccination scam in Mumbai’s Hiranandani Heritage, a plush housing society, came to light, the Mumbai Police and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday (June 16) launched separate investigations in the matter.  As per PTI, the Mumbai police have not made any arrests so far in connection with the alleged fraud in the housing society in suburban Kandivali. “We have not registered an FIR in this case and not arrested anybody. We have also not detained anybody. We are just investigating," Deputy Commissioner of Police, zone 11, Vishal Thakur told the news agency.  Meanwhile, BMC additional commissioner Suresh Kakani has ordered Vishwas Shankarwar, deputy municipal commissioner of region 7, to conduct a detailed probe and submit a report within the next 48 hours, an official statement said.