Taxi operator providing fake Covid reports held

Vadodara: Another taxi operator in the city landed in the police net for preparing forged Covid-19 RT-PCR test reports. The Special Operations Group (SOG) of city police conducted raids after receiving information about the operator and verifying it with the laboratory.
SOG sleuths was tipped about travel operator Krunal Patel living in Maneja and they contacted the Pathocare Laboratory whose report Patel provided. The laboratory, which has the largest RT-PCR testing capacity locally, checked the details and found the report to be forged.
Cops along with lab operator Dr Viral Patel reached Patel’s house from where he operated his travel agency. A search led the police to a computer and three mobile phones along with more forged RT-PCR reports on one of the phones. Patel was arrested in connection with the case.
City police had earlier nabbed a travel operator from Warasiya in connection with similar fraud. In both cases, the operators used to take the onus of providing a negative report to facilitate their clients’ travel.