Vadodara man forges Covid test report for insurance claim, booked

VADODARA: A 33-year-old man was booked by the J P Road police on Thursday for forging Covid report to claim insurance money. The cops said that Nimesh Kumar Parmar has been sent for Covid-19 tests and if tested negative, he will be arrested.

According to the police, Parmar, a resident of Gotri, prepared a fake report in November last year claiming that he had tested positive for Coronavirus. “Parmar works in a hospital and does a lot of clerical work. So he was aware of how the Covid-19 test reports are made. He had a test report of Baroda Unipath laboratory,” said Shivraj Jasani, police sub-inspector who is investigating the case.

“Parmar changed the serial number and name on the Covid-19 report in MS Paint software. He then sent it to the insurance firm and claimed Rs 2.2 lakh towards hospital bills,” Jasani told TOI. The insurance firm sent the test report to Baroda Unipath Lab to verify if it was a genuine document.

Complainant Dr Ankit Zaveri, who runs the lab, said that they verified the report and found that they had never done Covid test of the accused. Zaveri told the police that he informed the insurance firm that the test report was forged. Zaveri approached the cops some days ago and filed an application. Investigations revealed that Parmar, a married man, had forged the report to claim money following which he was booked for cheating.

Source: The Times of India