By Kalim Ahmed

Sudarshan News tweeted a video of a man handing a tube from an RT-PCR COVID test kit to another who fills it with an unused swab. The channel claimed that ward boy ‘Hassan’ destroyed and threw a COVID testing kit without using it to collect samples. It is noteworthy that three people can be spotted in the video but Sudarshan News has identified one of them named Hassan.
(Link-https://twitter.com/i/status/1400289714935144451)

Suresh Chavhanke, CMD and editor-in-chief of Sudarshan News, also tweeted the video and highlighted Hassan’s name.

(Link-https://twitter.com/i/status/1400297923015954434)

Sudarshan News’s video was picked up by a few users on Twitter.

It is circulating on Facebook as well.

Sudarshan News cherry-picked the name of the Muslim accused
According to a report by The Times of India, two healthcare workers were booked in Basti, Uttar Pradesh on May 31 after a video of them packing an RT-PCR kit without collecting a sample went viral. The district administration took cognizance of the matter and has ordered an investigation. The report identified the accused as lab technician (LT) Nitesh Kumar and ward boy Mohammad Hassan. Following the instruction of the district magistrate, chief medical officer (CMO) Dr Anuj Kumar suspended Hassan and wrote a letter to the district urban development agency (DUDA) to end the contract of the LT.

PTI reported that the incident took place at Manjharia Primary Health Centre in Mahripur village of Uttar Pradesh’s Basti district. The report also mentions that in the viral video, lab technician Nitesh Kumar opens the kit, then packs it without taking the sample from an elderly man. Ward boy Mohammad Hassan is the one seen filling up the form with the elderly man’s details.

Basti DM wrote on Twitter that an FIR has been registered against the two and dismissal proceedings have started with immediate suspension of the ward boy.

Alt News spoke with a local journalist who said that the motive behind the act hasn’t been ascertained but the duo has been suspended from work after an FIR was filed.

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