On Thursday, June 24, the Maharashtra government informed the Bombay High Court that more than 2,000 people were vaccinated in illegal vaccination camps organised by fraudsters last week in Mumbai.
State public prosecutor Deepak Thakare told the HC that over 2,053 people received fake COVID-19 shots, and eight persons have been arrested so far.
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Presenting a rough chart, Thakare said in Malad (W), 30 people got fake jabs on May 25, 122 in the next two days in Thane, and 514 in Borivli (W). At Lower Parel on May 29-30, 207 persons and 390 at Hiranandani Heritage in Kandivli on May 30 fell prey.
On June 1, at Andheri (W), 150 were 'vaccinated', around 200 in Khar on June 3, around 225 in Borivli (W) and then again in Andheri (W) on June 6, 220 more were given shots.
Responding to this, the court asked, “Despite all your efforts, this has happened. So, what are you doing about it?”
The government has sought a time of one week to deal with the issue. The bench added, “Last week, we had passed an order and said that this needed urgent attention. Every minute is important and so the order was immediately given so that you could come up with an SOP. Time is the essence here.”
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Senior civic counsel Anil Sakhare said that when people realised that certificates were from three different hospitals in one camp, BMC started questioning the hospitals.
In addition, a bench of Dipankar Datta and Justice Girish Kulkarni has instructed BMC to find what was the effect of this "fake vaccine" on people.
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