<span style="color: #222222;">The Supreme Court today allowed the Centre to probe fake ex-gratia claims on the death of kin due to Covid-19. A bench of Justices M R Shah and B V Nagarathna said that the Centre can verify 5 per cent of claims in four states, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Kerala, which had a wide difference between a number of claims and recorded deaths. The Apex Court also set a 60-day deadline for claims about deaths that occurred up to March 28, 2022, and a deadline of 90 days for all future claims.</span><br />