Just hours after police bust travel agents selling fake test reports, a mid-day sting finds that agents are back on the streets peddling negative reports to travellers heading to Gujarat and Rajasthan
Maruti Nandan Travels, which is run by a man only known as Rameshbhai. Pics/Rajesh Gupta
Amid lockdown-like restrictions in Mumbai, many migrant workers have again been returning to their villages. With a negative COVID RT-PCR test report mandatory in many states, a new business of providing people with such reports without any testing is also flourishing. In sting operations at Ghatkopar’s Gopal Bhuvan stop and at Borivli’s SGNP bus stop, mid-day found many tours and travel operators issuing COVID-19 negative test reports for just Rs 300-Rs 500 to travellers going to Gujarat and Rajasthan.