Four held for forging Covid-19 reports

Vadodara: The J P Road police arrested four persons allegedly involved in preparing fake Covid positive reports to claim insurance money. The accused had conspired to prepare a fake Covid-19 positive report of Mitesh Prajapati and Jyotika Prajapati in December last year.
The scam came to light when Dr Bijal Shah, who runs a pathology lab in Chhani, checked his lab records some days ago.Shah told the police that on January 8, he got Covid positive reports of two persons namely Mitesh Prajapati and Jyotika Prajapati. When Shah checked the lab records, he found that the reports he gave for the accused duo in December last year were negative.
Shah began inquiring into the matter and learnt that Mitesh had joined hands with Praveen Kumar Parmar, an insurance agent, for claiming insurance money on the basis of a forged report. Also, Dr Anil Patel who works at a private hospital has been booked for cheating along with Ripal Mishra who runs a private lab as they helped Mitesh in the fraud. The accused tampered the Covid-19 report and showed it as positive to claim the insurance firm.
The cops first arrested Mitesh and during his questioning, they learnt about involvement of Patel and agent Praveen Kumar Parmar who too were nabbed. Parmar told the cops that he took help from Deepak Tiwari who works at a hospital for preparing fake Covid-19 positive reports. Tiwari was arrested on Monday.