With the help of a 20-year-old Rabodi resident, the Anti-Extortion Cell of the Thane crime branch arrested a person for issuing fake certificates to unvaccinated people. According to the officials, the accused, identified as Saurabh Singh was  previously working at a primary health centre in Palghar as a data entry operator and was familiar with the process of generating certificates using the login ID and password.

Initial probe has revealed that the accused had created 20 such certificates, and earned Rs 15,000 until now. Faizur Rehman Fazlur Sheikh, a resident of Rabodi, Thane, learnt about a certain Saurabh Singh in Nalasopara offering fake vaccine certificates. “When I received this information, I immediately informed the Anti-Extortion Cell of the Thane police. With their help, I contacted Singh,” said Sheikh.