Shaken by a mid-day exposé on the brazen use of fake COVID negative certificates by tours and travel companies to ferry passengers out of Maharashtra, the civic body on Wednesday promised to launch an internal probe. Officials said they will decide on Thursday if the police are to be roped in. In its front-page report of April 14, this newspaper had shown that touts were arranging bogus RT-PCR reports just for Rs 300.

Sanket Travels World, owned by travel agent Sanket, was another company that was sending passengers with fake reports