A private agency, which was awarded the contract for Covid testing in key areas of the Kumbhmela in Haridwar and is now under scanner for conducting 1 lakh fake tests, had submitted dubious office addresses to the Uttarakhand health numbers that are not in service, a TOI investigation has found. In one of the documents submitted by the agency a copy of which is with TOI, the firm's address is listed as being in Ansal Chambers, Bhikaji Cama Place, East Delhi. There is no Bhikaji Cama Place in East Delhi. On the company's webiste, their corporate address is mentioned in a building in Sector 63, Nodia, which TOI found was a tin shed. None of the phone numbers listed on the website was in service. Spoke to one of the directors of the company who said the incorrect addresses were "manual errors" and phone numbers were unreachable since they had been submitted on old letterheads of the firms. She also said the properity in Noida when a tin shed stands was once a factory. We shut shop two years ago. But the website still has that address, She said. When pressed further, she said they were now operational from Ansal Chambers, South Delhi, but had given their registered office on lease to a courier company during lockdown. Haridwar district magistrate C Ravishankar told TOI on Wednesday that he has ordered the local police to file an FIR in the Kumbh Covid testing scam. He added that sections of the Indain Penal Code and names of the accused will be added as investigations proceed. We are tying to get in to touch with all the people who were tested. We will launch a detailed probe that will take sometime "he added. Delhi Police's Crime Branch no Wednesday arrested a judo coach in connection with the murder of wrestler Sagar Dhankad.
