A clinical pathology laboratory, operating near AIIMS and Safdarjung Hospital here, has been sealed and its owner has been arrested for allegedly cheating by providing people fake reports by forging t
A clinical pathology laboratory, operating near AIIMS and Safdarjung Hospital here, has been sealed and its owner has been arrested for allegedly cheating by providing people fake reports by forging the signature of a well-known pathologist.
Thousands of fake test reports from the private laboratory — owned by one Mohammed Nasim, 40 — have been seized while raids at several other locations were underway, the Delhi police said on Tuesday.
During interrogation, it emerged that Nasim used to work for a private clinical pathology laboratory earlier and knew the basic format of all possible kinds of test reports. “All he needed to do was ‘filling in the gaps,’” said a senior police official, adding, “This incident has rung alarm bells and we are soon going to launch a massive drive against such fake labs operating in the national capital.”
The laboratory located in South Delhi’s Yusuf Sarai area — a hub of clinical pathology laboratories in the city — had been operating for around seven years. It was raided and sealed on Monday after receiving a complaint from the pathologist whose signature the lab allegedly used to forge. The laboratory did not even have basic equipment for testing blood groups, let alone other complicated tests. However, in its list, the laboratory claimed to have every facility and provided imaginary reports for these same.
Investigating officials said that they are interrogating Nasim to know who helped him in running the laboratory. “We are also trying to know how many people have been misled by them,” said the investigating officials, adding, “It seems to be a bigger racket than what it appears to be and we have decided to get to the root of it as it is related to lives of innocent people.”
