If one accepts the claim of health department that the cause of reporting of 65 new cases in a day is due to accumulation of samples then it raises serious questions on the reporting system of the department. The information wing of the health department accumulates reports from all districts and after vetting it from the top officials in health directorate the report is sent to government, health minister and media. In this case it appeared that the office of Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Haridwar sat over the samples of suspected patients for days together and dispatched old reports to the directorate. Further it is apparent that the directorate too did not have the gumption to ask the CMO of Haridwar about sudden stagnancy in the dengue cases. Sadly all this is happening at a time when the Chief Minister Harish Rawat and Health Minister Surendra Singh Negi have repeatedly asked the officials to be on a state of highes