Daijiworld Media Network - Mumbai
Mumbai, Apr 17: Two persons were arrested for allegedly fabricating 'Covid negative' reports of 133 employees of a company in Navi Mumbai. Both the arrested are owners of patholaby laboratories. Devidas Ghule (44) is the owner of Midtown Diagnostic Laboratory in Thane while Mohammad Shaikh (21), owner of Perfect Health Pathology in Kalyan. They were tasked with conducting RT-PCR tests of the company.
Senior inspector Nitin Gite said that after collecting samples and fees for testing, they dumped the swab samples and faked the reports on letterheads of a lab authorized to conduct the tests.
When the reports showed that all tests were negative, an official of the company called up the authorized lab to enquire when it was learnt that no such tests were conducted, a police officer said.