Kolkata: Debanjan Deb, who posed as an IAS officer and arranged a fake Covid vaccination camp, has been charged with an attempt to murder.
If it is found guilty, Deb faces imprisonment for life.
A little more than two months after a special investigation team was formed with department detective officers to investigate Deb and seven roles in managing false covid vaccination camps, the first cost sheet was filed on Thursday.
Deb and the others have been charged under 13 parts of the IPC and one of the disaster management actions for criminal conspiracies, cheating, forgery, ownership of false documents, forgery of drugs, selling drugs that are falsified and sales of different drugs.
“This case is related to the Kasba Camp.
We submit a cost sheet on the 66th day of our investigation and quoted 130 witnesses.
Besides Deb, the other accused of being colleagues in the Kasba office and those who helped him establish a fake vaccination center Amherst Street .
They are Ashok Kumar Roy, who owns the property DEB Kasba used as office, Rabin Sikder, Silanta Das, Sarat Patra, Arabinda Baidya, Kanchan Deb and Shantanu Manna, “said CP (crime) Murlidhar Sharma.
Deb, who also posed as Commissioner of KMC, running the office in Kasba and organized Covid Vaccination camp, where he passed Amikacin Sulphate, an antibifield, like a covishield.
After the fraud broke out, Minister of Mamata Banerjee’s head had instructed the police to ensure justice in this case and that strict accusations slap the defendant.
The cost sheet in another case against Deb will immediately follow.
Police from the new market police station recently arrested three of his genes before submitting a cost sheet in the complaint submitted by KMC.
Police said reports from the Serum Institute and state drug control authorities helped them submit a cost sheet quickly.
“At the time of the report arrived, we have recorded a witness statement and completed Deb’s questions and others in at least three cases registered at the Kasba and Amherst police station,” an officer said.
The State Narcotics Unit Report arrived one day after the Serum Institute confirmed that what was revealed was due to covishield by false deb.
“The Covishield manufacturer said there were no samples, confiscated from the Kasbang Deb office, matching their batch numbers and no one was made in their unit,” police said.