Mumbai Police has registered a case of cheating against the doctor who was arrested earlier in the fake case. COVID-19 Case of vaccination in Kandivali area of the city.
An FIR was registered against Manish Tripathi for cheating the students of his medical school, where he charged nursing students Rs 70,000 for the course.
However, one of the students later came to know that the institute was not registered with any recognized board and came forward to file a complaint. A police officer said that many students have been cheated in Tripathi’s institute in a similar manner.
Tripathi was arrested in the fake immunization scam after residents of Kandivali Housing Society claimed that they did not get their vaccination details on the CO-WIN app and issued certificates in the name of three different hospitals.
An FIR was lodged at Kandivali police station on June 17 for conducting an unauthorized vaccination drive for 390 people on May 30. Subsequently, similar FIRs were registered in Versova, Khar, Borivali, Bhoiwada and other areas of Mumbai.
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