Bengaluru: The Yelahanka police team have arrested four for their involvement in the Covid-19 test scam.
Three government lab technicians and the proprietor of a private laboratory in the city are the arrested and have been identified as technicians Padmanabha, Puneeth and Sathish, technicians and Bhavi Reddy, proprietor of Standard Lab in Yelahanka.
According to police, Dr Chethan Kumar of the Government General Hospital in Yelahanka, had filed a complaint with the police on stumbling upon false data entry of Covid test samples. The three technicians used to collect around 40 to 50 samples daily and the private labs used to charge the patients Rs 800 to Rs 1,000 for the reports with Rs 100 each paid to the trio for every report. They were into this fraud since December 2020, according to police.
