dehradun the special investigation team sit formed by the senior superintendent police haridwar to look into the case of fake covid tests conducted during the kumbh questioned the chief medical officer cmo haridwar dr s k jha and the mela health officer mho dr arjun sengar for over six hours on mondayduring the interrogation the cmo and the mho passed the blame on each other an official involved in the sit told toi while the mela official said he was not responsible for the allotment of portal id and passwords and the district health department was supposed to do the same and check what was being uploaded the health department official claimed that it was the mela officials who hired max corporate services despite the district rejecting it for not having proper credentialsthe sit had also issued notices to the private agency and two labs involved in covid testing but their representatives couldnt turn up citing delay in receiving the notice the firms are currently under the scanner for having conducted one lakh fake tests during the kumbhwe have called max corporate services representative and the authorities of the two labs namely nalwa and dr lalchandani path labs to record their statements they have been given a deadline after which if they dont turn up we will consider that they dont have anything to tell us and we will proceed with the case accordingly till monday no one among the three private parties had turned up claiming they received the notices late said an official from the sitaccording to an investigation by the health department max corporate services faked the tests registered a single mobile number against dozens of samples and showed that hundreds of samples had been collected from just one house several sample collectors of the firm had never even been to haridwarafter the scam was reported by toi an fir has been registered and the police as well as the district administration have started their probes