More shocking details emerged in the vaccination scam on Friday, even as authorities sealed Charkop-based Shivam Hospital, whose owners Dr Shivraj Pataria and his wife Nita are among the main accused, citing a host of violations. The police said one of the alleged scamsters, Anurag Tripathi, is a BSc dropout though he would identify himself as a doctor at the fake inoculation camps. mid-day profiles the players who took a short-cut only to end up on the long road to justice.

In a brazen display of greed and disregard for the law, the gang led by Dr Manish Tripathi, the Pataria couple and few others held bogus vaccination camps at several places, jabbing over 2,600 unsuspecting people with fake Covid-19 vaccine shots.