Two held for cheating 50 Covid patients on pretext of O2 cylinders
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The Police have bust an illegal unit manufacturing Liquid Medical Oxygen in a garment factory in Sakinaka, Andheri, seized 31 oxygen cylinders, 5 oxygen kits and nabbed two persons.. Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, May 28 : Two people have been arrested from Greater Noida for cheating over 50 Covid patients and their family members on pretext of providing home delivery of oxygen cylinders, Delhi Police said on Thursday.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Shahdara, R. Sathiyasundaram said that Vivek Vihar police station personnel arrested the two fraudsters Ritik Kumar Singh, of Bihar s Ara district and Sandeep Panday, a resident of Uttar Pradesh s Ghazipur who used to make promises to provide oxygen cylinder at doorsteps, received money through digital transactions, and then, disappeared.
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image captionFuneral pyres are lit by the Ganges in Allahabad, where bodies have been washing downstream for days
India s holiest river, the Ganges, has been swollen with bodies in recent days.
Hundreds of corpses have been found floating in the river or buried in the sand of its banks. Those who live close to where they have washed up, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, fear they are Covid-19 victims.
India has been overwhelmed by a devastating second wave of the pandemic in recent weeks. It has recorded more than 25 million cases and 275,000 deaths, but experts say the real death toll is several times higher.
Flagging discrepancy in the government s death toll, the Patna High Court on Monday directed the Chief Secretary and the Divisional Commissioner of Buxar to file a fresh affidavit on the bodies that were found in river Ganga last week.A bench .
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The Centre has also advised states to provide financial assistance as well as regulate the rates for the cremation or burial process.
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