The police have arrested three persons from Kerala entering Karnataka with a fake Covid negative certificate, at Perumbadi.
The arrested are Vishnu Prasad, Arun Varghese and Naushad from Iritty in the Kannur district of Kerala.
A lorry laden with red laterite stones were bound to Perumbadi from Kerala. The police on verifying the Covid negative certificate realised that it was a fake certificate.
The arrested have been remanded in judicial custody.