Saline water injected in 10 COVID-19 vaccination camps

Moreover, in Mumbai, around 2,000 people have fallen prey to fake vaccination camps.

Saline water injected in 10 COVID-19 vaccination camps
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While the vaccinations for the coronavirus are ongoing across the country, several people have been duping citizens of the same.

On Thursday, July 1, saline water was jabbed in 10 camps that opened after the case of bogus COVID-19 vaccination at Hiranandani Heritage Society in Kandivali a few days back, for which the investigation is underway.

Moreover, in Mumbai, around 2,000 people have fallen prey to fake vaccination camps. According to reports, Mumbai Police has filed seven FIRs and arrested 10 people so far which includes a woman who shared the username/password of a CoWIN account to generate vaccination certificates.

The accused have been charged with an attempt to commit culpable homicide not amounting to murder. In addition, Mumbai Police said scammed citizens may have been injected with saline, or saltwater.

"Rs 12.40 lakh that was fraudulently obtained has been recovered. Bank accounts of the main accused - Manish Tripathi and Mahendra Singh - have been frozen," Vishwas Nangre Patil, Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Order), said. "We have also discovered eight more camps had been organised by this syndicate, and that most of the accused are common across all these crimes," he added.

Furthermore, the officials have informed that the vials - Covishield, according to some of the victims - used to administer the 'vaccines' were sourced from a hospital in Mumbai, but it is unclear what they actually contained.

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