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A SESSIONS court rejected the anticipatory bail plea of a 45-year-old woman booked for allegedly forging a yellow fever vaccination card, mandatory for traveling to certain countries for two passengers. The Dindoshi sessions court rejected the pre-arrest bail plea of Amrin Khan, a beautician, booked by Sahar police last month.
The court was informed that on September 1, a deputy airport health officer at the Mumbai international airport, was told that a 63-year-old woman was found with a fake yellow fever vaccination card. The woman was returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo and the immigration officer had noticed that the vaccination card did not tally with the one issued by the Airport Health Organisation (APHO) office. The officer found that while the card shown by the woman had the vaccination date of May 6, a Tuesday, the vaccination in Mumbai is done only on Monday and Wednesday. It also had other irregularities like the lack of a stamp or a signature of the officer of the APHO. A similar card was also found with another accused who was traveling to Kenya for a jungle safari. The woman had told the police that it was Khan who had helped administer the injection and issued a fake certificate to her.
Khan in her plea had said that she had no connection with the travelers apprehended by the airport authorities and she had never prepared or issued the “forged certificates”. The police opposed her
plea stating that private doctors are not permitted to issue the certificates and a probe is necessary to see how the certificates were issued. “It is a serious matter concerning national health… It is
necessary to seize material used by her for committing such a crime. Under these circumstances, custodial interrogation of the applicant is necessary,” additional sessions judge S S Gosavi said in the order on November 15, made public this week.
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