The ongoing Covid-19 vaccination drive and the subsequent easing of restrictions for fully vaccinated individuals have turned the vaccination certificate into a valuable commodity.

The digital certificate holders have the freedom to dine in at restaurants and participate in recreational activities in open areas. Some of them are even allowed to travel across districts and states.

However, the move to turn the vaccination certificate into a “ticket to freedom” has resulted in certain quarters, especially anti-vaccine groups, scurrying for ways to fake their Covid-19 vaccination by getting a forged certificate.

Not surprisingly, allegations of unimmunised individuals paying certain private clinics...