India, Dec. 13 -- The Karad city police have filed a case against 17 individuals, including two doctors from Pune, associated with a private laboratory for issuing diagnostic reports signed by a pathologist despite the tests never being conducted or supervised.

According to the FIR, Dr Sandeep Mohanrao Yadav, 52, a qualified pathologist who has been running the Datta Pathology Laboratory in Karad since 2006, filed a complaint after discovering that a private laboratory was involved in duping patients. The patients were being issued reports prepared by technicians and other individuals while using the name, scanned signature, and credentials of a pathologist.

Assistant police inspector Tabbasum Shadiwan, attached to Karad city police sta...