Fake RT-PCR Test Negative Certificate: Mangalorean Police Arrest Seven at Border Checkposts

Fake RT-PCR Test Negative Certificate: Mangalorean Police Arrest Seven at Border Checkposts

Mangalorean Police have arrested seven persons, including two students, on the charge of producing fake RT-PCR test negative certificates at the Talapady border check-post on National Highway 66 for entering Dakshina Kannada from Kerala. As per the guidelines, RT-PCR negative report is compulsory for travelling from Kerala to DK. 17 check posts have been set on the district’s borders to Kerala among which nine fall under Mangalore police commissionerate. A team headed by Police Sub-Inspector Chandrashekaraiah and Health Department official Pradeep on Wednesday found seven persons, including three women, with fake RT-PCR test certificates. The team scanned the QR code and found that the details were different from what was on the certificates that were produced. The arrested are identified as Mohammed Sharif (34) from Padil, Abubakker (28) from Manjeshwar, Abdul Tamim (19) from Chengala, Ismail (48) from Kadappara, and Hadil (25), Kabir A M (24) and Hasin (31) from Cheruvathur. The police have also arrested the person who helped in forging the RT-PCR reports in one of the cases. His mobile phone has been seized.