Frauds organise fake vaccination camp at Mumbai society, pocket Rs 5 lakh

MUMBAI: Worried that 390 of its residents got a “spurious vaccine,” an upper-crust housing society in Kandivli (W) has complained to police about being “taken for a ride” by a group of people who held a Covid-19 vaccination drive on its premises on May 30.
On Tuesday, the Hiranandani Heritage Residents Welfare Association told cops that some “unscrupulous elements” had played a fraud on it and “put the health and wellbeing” of its members in “serious peril.”
TOI spoke to some residents, who said there were many red flags right at the start: None of the recipients received an invoice for payment and none suffered any common side-effects associated with the vaccination. “The team had no laptop or mobile app used for online verification in vaccination centres,” said a resident. “They only physically checked and noted down people’s Aadhar number and said we would get an OTP a few days later that we had to convey to them,” said resident Gopal Sura.
Concern turned to fear when 150 of the recipients got vaccination certificates from different hospitals carrying different dates. “The fraudsters collected around Rs 5 lakh and left us worrying about what was injected,” said a resident.