Thread by @fpjindia

#BombayHC bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Girish Kulkarni is hearing a PIL filed by one Siddharth Chandrashekhar highlighting vaccination fraud at various sites in #Mumbai.

#FakeVaccineCamps
#FakeVaccineDrive
#VaccineFraud

Adv Anita Shekhar-Castellino for Chandrashekhar.
Sr Adv Anil Sakhare for @mybmc
Aruna Kamat-Pai, Public Prosecutor for State.

Sakhare: 2,774 odd number of people cheated. Over 1,000 of these people approached us, we have checked them. There are no complaints. @MumbaiPolice report shows that saline water was used in these fake vaccine camps.

#bombayhc #VaccineFraud

Sakhare: We have written to the Union government to 'de-register' these citizens from the #CoWin app and again register them so that they can avail the vaccination.

CJ: Mr ASG, these people need to be de-registered. Please take some steps.

#BombayHC #VaccineFraud

Pai: A total of 10 FIRs have been lodged till now and 14 persons have been arrested. A special team has been formed to investigate the case. And from now on, if there is any such incident, this team would deal with the case. Probe is underway.

#BombayHC #VaccineFraud

Pai: Probe in the FIR at #Kandivali is likely to be completed soon. We would file chargesheet within a fortnight.

Sakhare: We have issued fresh guidelines, wherein for any society they will have to come to the #BMC and check if the vaccine providers are authentic.

J Kulkarni: Mr Sakhare, BMC has to keep a vigil on all these issues.

Also, ensure that the victims of these incidents are vaccinated and there is no delay.

Mr ASG take steps on the #BMC letter requesting to de-register these citizens from the app.

Adjourned for two weeks.