In a latest development, the Thane Police busted a gang involved in providing fake COVID-19 vaccination certificates to unvaccinated persons for mere ₹2,000.
This development came after a man was arrested on Thursday, February 3, for allegedly issuing fake vaccine certificate.
Officials stated that based on a tip-off, a team from the property cell of the Thane police sent a decoy customer and nabbed the accused Asfaque Iftikar Shaikh from Mumbra.
According to reports, the accused asked the decoy customer to provide his Aadhaar card number, mobile phone number and pay INR 2,000 to get a certificate without taking the vaccine.
Several people were obtaining fake certificates without getting vaccinated, and endangering lives, reports stated.
An offence has been registered against Shaikh and a probe has been launched to trace people who were issued fake certificates, the official added.
Besides, several such cases have also come to light in Mumbai. Recently, the Mumbai crime branch arrested two people for allegedly selling fake COVID-19 vaccination certificates. The arrested have been identified as Sahad Sajid Shaikh (21) and Maviya Abdul Bhoraniya (21), they have lost nearly 75 vaccination certificates over the past few months, said the police.
Moreover, in December last year, Mumbai’s Kurla police nabbed two 19-year-old men for allegedly selling fake vaccination certificates to those unvaccinated, reports stated.
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