Kolkata:Fake vaccination scandal has come to light recently in Kasba. Initial reports suggest that the vaccine used at the camp in the name of Covishield was an antibiotic medicine. Amikacin was mixed in water and injected into the people coming for Covid vaccination. Sleuths probing the case have also found that few other associates, who were helping fake IAS officer Debanjan Deb in organising his mode of operation, were posing as bogus bureaucrats.
A hunt was launched by the Detective Department (DD) of Kolkata Police to trace their whereabouts and activities so far. "Since the beginning, we had doubts that a single individual cannot set up such a huge network and run it in an organized manner. Now after initial investigation some vital clues have cropped up that Debanjan had an entire team through which he used to run his racket. Some of his close associates were women and others also faked as bureaucrats like him. The fake bureaucrats included posts of West Bengal Civil Service (WBCS) officers and Indian Administrative officers," an official said.
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Refusing to name the associates, the official said, "We cannot divulge the names of Debanjan's associates right now for the sake of investigation. But we will nab them one after another and grill them."
Some of the eyewitnesses, who were vaccinated at the fake vaccination camp, have told the investigative officials that although some of them saw a few female associates of Deb from a distance, but they were not allowed to meet them face to face. "Eyewitnesses told us that these female associates used to appear under strict security cover," the probe official said.