Vadodara: The Gotri police on Thursday booked four persons, including a doctor, for faking a Covid-19 report to claim insurance money.
This is the second such case of cheating booked in the city in last 10 days. The police said that it will verify all the documents and start investigations in the case.
Dr Bijal Shah, who runs a pathology lab in Chhani, told the police that on January 8, he got Covid positive reports of two persons namely Mitesh Prajapati and Jyotika Prajapati. When Shah checked the lab records, he found that the reports he gave for the accused duo in December last year were negative.
Shah began inquiring into the matter and learnt that Mitesh had joined hands with Praveen Kumar Parmar, an insurance agent, for claiming insurance money on the basis of a forged report. Also, Dr Anil Patel, who works at a private hospital has been booked for cheating along with Ripal Mishra who runs a private lab as they helped Mitesh in the fraud.
The accused tampered the Covid-19 report and showed it as positive to claim the insurance firm.
On January 6, a 33-year-old man was booked by the J P Road police for forging a Covid report to claim insurance money. Nimesh Kumar Parmar had tampered a Covid-19 report and put his name on it to claim the money.