{"id":11204,"date":"2020-08-01T13:29:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T13:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=11204"},"modified":"2020-08-01T13:29:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T13:29:58","slug":"kolkata-gang-dupes-people-over-covid-19-tests-arrested-kolkata-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=11204","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata gang dupes people over Covid-19 tests, arrested | Kolkata News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>KOLKATA: Three persons were arrested in Kolkata for allegedly duping people after taking money from them for <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Covid-19-tests\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_Covid-19-tests\" frmappuse=\"1\">Covid-19 tests<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/police\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_police\" frmappuse=\"1\">police<\/a> said on Saturday. Two of them were working as contractual laboratory assistants at different state-run hospitals in the city, a <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/senior-officer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_senior-officer\" frmappuse=\"1\">senior officer<\/a> said. <br \/>They were using fake ICMR forms to collect swab samples of people to test those for Covid-19, he said. <br \/>They took money from the people for the tests and duped them, the officer said. <br \/>The racket was unearthed after family members of a patient who died lodged a police complaint, alleging that the test conducted by the accused was incorrect, he added. <br \/>The three people were arrested late on Friday from their residences in the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Netaji-Nagar\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_Netaji-Nagar\" frmappuse=\"1\">Netaji Nagar<\/a> area, police said. <\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolkata\/kolkata-gang-duped-people-over-covid-19-tests-arrested\/articleshow\/77302622.cms\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: Three persons were arrested in Kolkata for allegedly duping people after taking money from them for Covid-19 tests, police said on Saturday. Two of them were working as contractual laboratory assistants at different state-run hospitals in the city, a senior officer said. They were using fake ICMR forms to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1596288600_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}