Haridwar, June 15 -- A detailed investigation into the COVID-19 reports submitted during the Kumbh Mela this year, revealed that at least 1 lakh test reports were forged by a private agency and were fake.

Just days after a preliminary probe by the Uttarakhand health department suggested that many of the four lakh COVID-19 test results issued during the Kumbh festival in Haridwar were fake, a detailed investigation running into 1,600 pages and accessed by Times Of India has found that at least 1 lakh test reports were forged by a private agency.

Reportedly, in one of the cases, a single phone number was used to register over 50 people while one antigen test kit (which has an exclusive number and is meant for single use) had tested 700 sa...