India News | Maha: 3 Held in Nagpur for Selling Remdesivir at High Prices
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Three people were arrested in Nagpur for allegedly selling Remdesivir injections at exorbitant rates amid a clamour for the drug due to the sharp rise in COVID-19 cases, police said on Saturday.
Nagpur, Apr 17 (PTI) Three people were arrested in Nagpur for allegedly selling Remdesivir injections at exorbitant rates amid a clamour for the drug due to the sharp rise in COVID-19 cases, police said on Saturday.
An official said Vikas Patil, Aman Shinde and Ishwar Mukesh Mandal were held after police, acting on a tip-off, called the accused posing as the kin of a patient urgently requiring the medicine, an official said.
"Vikas Patil was held when he arrived at a bridge here to sell Remdesivir vials to a decoy sent by the police. He named Shinde, a medical distributor, and Mandal, a ward boy in a hospital, as his accomplices. Mandal used to steal the vials from the hospital where he worked," said Deputy Commissioner of Police V Neelotpal.
Jaripatka police, which seized four vials of Remdesivir, a car and Rs 30,000 cash from the accused, are probing further, he added.
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