Bengal MP Mimi Chakraborty duped in fake vax racket, one arrested

Kolkata Police have arrested a man allegedly for running a fake vaccination in Kasba area in the southern fringes of the city based on a complaint by Trinamool Congress MP Mimi ChakrabortyThe actorturnedpolitician found the camp suspicious when she received no official confirmation after taking the vaccine from the camp on Wednesday evening and so lodged a complaint with the policePolice immediately arrested one Debanjan Dev in south Kolkata who allegedly pretended to be an IAS officer and supervised thousands of vaccinationsThe fake vaccination camp is now turning into a bigger investigation amid questions about whether the jabs given to hundreds of people were genuineAlso read NESCO centre data entry official held for fake vaccination scam at Mumbai collegeChakraborty said that he was approached by the man requesting her to become the chief guest in the camp and she took the Covid shot to encourage people to vaccinate themselves and help check the spread of the virus Around 250 people were vaccinated at the campI took Covishield vaccine at the camp to motivate people for taking jabs But I never received a confirmation message from CoWIN she saidShe said she noticed that no Aadhaar card details were taken for people to register with CoWIN so no one received any message after the shotThe police are now investigating the shots given to people and whether they were vaccines past their expiry date Kolkata Police and KMC who are jointly investigating the fake vaccine case have come to know that Dev had organised another camp in Amherst Street city college where 70 people including the professors and their families were vaccinatedPolice have also come to know that this Kasba New Market camp was running for the last 12 days and more than 1000 people were vaccinatedA team of doctors and healthcare workers have reached Kasba New Market where the vaccination camp was organised and they will go to every family to see whether the vaccine had any side effectsThe people told us they were given Covishield and Sputnik V but we cannot understand from where they got the vials The KMC didnt make an allotment a KMC official saidWe have sent the vials for clinical tests and are waiting for the report We are not sure what has been injected into the people If we have not allotted any vial then from where did he get the vials These are questions that need to be answered the official addedInterrogating Dev police found out that he posed as Joint Commissioner of Kolkata Municipal Corporation and moved with an armed bodyguardWe have come to know that he had taken interviews of some people promising jobs in KMC We are trying to find whether he was the only man in this racket or there are some people involved a senior police officer of Kolkata Detective Department saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever