Kolkata: North City College ‘mediator’ held

KOLKATA: The special investigation team (SIT) probing the fake vaccination camp case has arrested the alleged mediator, who introduced main accused Debanjan Deb to the principal and helped set up a camp there. Indrajit Shaw (46), a resident of Tangra, was Deb’s employee. This is the ninth arrest in the case and the first related to the City College camp.
The team also searched Deb’s Kasba office on Saturday and seized attendance registers, visitor slips, applications for jobs and fake tender documents.
Shaw had earlier claimed he had met Deb during a puja at Taltala and was promised the job of a head clerk in his office. Police said Shaw was Deb’s close aide. He joined in March and drew a monthly salary of Rs 23,500. Shaw said when he fell ill at work, Deb gave him a medicine, claiming to have ranked 67th in the medical joint entrance exam. But, Shaw claimed, he had to hospitalized after having the pill.
Police are also checking if Deb, who passed off antibiotic amikacin as Covishield, had passed off triamcinolone acetonide as Sputnik. The suspicion is based on original labels on the vials under the fake labels of Covid vaccines. Chemical analysis of the vials are yet to be completed.