On Thursday, December 23, Mumbai’s Kurla police nabbed two 19-year-old men for allegedly selling fake vaccination certificates to those unvaccinated, reports stated.
According to accounts, police officials attained a tip-off that an individual was selling fake vaccination certificates in Kurla. Therefore, they laid a trap for him. With the assistance of Lubna Ansari, the assistant medical officer of L-ward, a dummy customer was sent to the accused to collect the fake certificate.
The individual who posed to be the customer met one of those accused, Zuber Shaikh a resident of Wadala. Shaikh demanded INR 3,000 for both certificates. Based on narratives, Sushant Bangar, Assistant police inspector from Kurla police station, mentioned that they arrested Shaikh since he downloaded the certificates that had the seal of the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
Shaikh, in his interrogation, named his accomplice a 19-year-old Alfez Hassan Khan who was responsible for acquiring the certificates. Khan’s house was raided by the police and he was nabbed on him on Wednesday, December 22, evening.
The police officers stated that the teenagers were curating fake vaccination certificates with the assistance of doctors from Pratapgad in Uttar Pradesh. Bangar was quoted by narratives elaborating on how when they questioned Khan, he brought to light that he was in contact with someone from Pratapgad who got the certificates curated from local doctors and sent them via email to Khan. The nabbed stated that they had given these fake certificates to many people.
The teenagers have been booked under several sections of the Indian Penal Code for cheating and forgery as well as flouting COVID-19 norms and relevant sections of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
According to the latest developments, the police are attempting to trace the doctors and contact person from Pratapgarh. They are also trying to ascertain if the scam is being undertaken elsewhere.
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