Fake lab that issued 23,000 medical reports busted
NEW DELHI: Two men have been arrested from northwest Delhi for running a fake pathology lab and issuing over 23,000 bogus reports in the last one year without conducting a single test, police said on Thursday.
Deputy commissioner of police(northwest) Aslam Khan said the lab — Unicare Path Solution in Adarsh Nagar — has been sealed and the two alleged accused, Ajay Yadav and Sanjay Yadav, arrested. DCP Khan said that the signatures and names of doctors mentioned on the lab reports are forged and that no such persons existed in real life.
Police claimed that the lab also received samples outsourced by other clinics and laboratories by promising to conduct tests at a lower price.
Police however did not name the laboratories that outsourced their samples to the one run by the two arrested men. On their official website, the lab has claimed to be a “fast emerging ultimate Diagnostic Service provider on the horizon with a promise to ensure Quality, Reliability and Customer Care.”
Explaining the modus operandi, DCP Khan said, “They offered to conduct 2,500 different kinds of test but hardly conducted any. The accused told police that they discarded every sample they received after clicking the sample’s picture. After that, they published the picture with imaginary values filled in set templates saved in a laptop and sent them back to the patients or the laboratories.”
Ajay who had earlier worked as a lab assistant and had prepared a template that was used for all the reports.
Police said the two men were running the lab in the Sarai Pipal Thala area of Adarsh Nagar for the one year. Police are on the lookout for a third accused and mastermind Rajneesh Kumar.
KIDNAPPING COMPLAINT NAILED THEM
Had one of the employees of the laboratory not called the police control room informing the cops that Sanjay Yadav had been kidnapped, the fake laboratory would never have been busted.
Police said that on April 17, a technician called the police control room informing that Sanjay had been kidnapped.
“The caller revealed that Sanjay along with Ajay owned the lab. When we visited the premise, we grew suspicious as the condition of the lab was pathetic. It was being run from a small room, in which there was no equipment for examination of any sample,” said DCP Khan.