Delhi Doctor arrested for forging COVID reports in names of popular path labs

The accused were arrested on September 3.

"The doctor used to recommend patients for COVID-19 tests and collect the sample. With the help of co-accused Singh, he used to make forged test report of the renowned diagnostic centre or of the labs as desired by the patients," Deputy Commissioner of Police (south) Atul Kumar Thakur told PTI.

As the reports were prepared in PDF format on a computer and the same were sent to patients on WhatsApp, it was difficult to differentiate between the forged and the genuine report, the DCP added.

Later, the doctor admitted that he had given forged COVID-19 test reports to more than 75 patients using names of diagnostic centres such as CRL Diagnostics Lab, Modern Diagnostics and Research Centre, Dr P Bhasin Pathlabs (P) Ltd and Prognosis Laboratories.

The accused further confessed that he had been doing this forgery for the past two-and-a-half months and used to charge Rs 2,400 per test. There was no specific criterion for deciding negative or positive. Just as per the symptoms of the patient, the reports were prepared. The samples taken were destroyed, police said.

Further investigation is in progress and efforts are being made to trace the other persons involved in the nexus, police added.