Kalabazari: Police asked for six and a half lakhs for two injections of Remdesivir

Posted on 5th May 2021 by rohit kumar

While people are making every effort to save the lives of their families in the Corona epidemic, some people are not deterred by injections and black marketing of oxygen. Police arrested three people, including father and son, for black marketing of Remedesvir injection from different police stations.

 

 

One of the accused arrested was demanding Rs 6.5 lakh for two injections. The team of Crime Branch Sector-30 has arrested the accused Sector-28 resident Hitesh Palta from Police Line Road with two injections. At the same time, the father-son Virendra (58) and Atul (29), who live in Sector-75, have been caught by the police station BPTP team. Five injections have been recovered from them.

 

 

In police interrogation, Hitesh said that he works as a currency exchange in Parsvnath Mall located in Sector-19. The accused had brought this injection from Delhi and was selling it at expensive prices. The accused was demanding six and a half lakh rupees in exchange for two injections.

 

A case has been registered against him in Police Station Sector-31 under the Essential Commodities Act, Disaster Management Act, Drugs and Cosmetics Act, and Fraud Section. The accused has been taken on a day's remand in which he will be questioned about the place of injection.

 

In the second case, BPTP police station in-charge Inspector Dalbir Singh along with Drug Controller Officer Sandeep Gahlan formed the team. To catch the accused father-son, the police, as a customer, called him up and demanded an injection. He asked for 35 thousand rupees for the injection and called the team to the Golden Gate located at Sector-75.

 

Accused Atul rode on Scooty along with his father Virender and reached the place mentioned. Police caught both of them there. During interrogation, the accused told that they had brought the injections from Gurugram and wanted to earn money by selling them at expensive prices. Both the accused have been produced before the court and sent to jail.

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